To celebrate Christmas we went to Mimi's house on Christmas Eve. This was with my mom's side of the family. We had a yummy Italian dinner (Daryl's choice for his 55th birthday), had lots of entertainment from the little ones, and enjoyed each other's company. I would say this was one of our more chaotic gift opening. We had Garret- 4 (almost 5), Hudson- 2 1/2, Callista almost 2, Isaac-1, and Ashley 5 weeks. Garret was ecstatic about every single gift he received! Hudson was totally uninterested, especially once he opened his Gator Golf, Callista didn't pay too much attention, just ran around and played with any toys laying around. Isaac's current obsession is balls, so there were occasional balls being thrown across the room to keep him entertained. Ashley did her fair share of adding to the noise with her crying. She did settle down after a bit. The scary thing is, next year we will have 2 extra ones, that will be three close to one year olds added to the group! I can't wait!
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| The 2 G's and their new boots! |
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| Callista sporting Ashley's head band |
For Christmas morning we opened presents at home, Ashley got her first Bible from Santa. Mommy got a video camera to record all of the fun and new things Ashley will be doing this year and daddy got a new digital camera to take pictures of Ashley and his birds :)
Papa and Awma and the other aunts and uncles are celebrating Christmas in Mexico this year with Luke and Allison, so we had gifts from them stored under our tree to open Christmas morning. Ashley got books, a swimsuit, and some toys from them. And cousin Claira sent some books as well.
After we finished with our Christmas, we went to my mom's to celebrate with my siblings and parents. This proved to be more entertainment for us. We decided not to exchange gifts for the adults this year, but just to by for the 5 little ones. Out of the 5, only 2 had the capability of actually opening gifts, so the adults were still opening majority of the gifts anyway.
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| Callista and her new baby |
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| Hudson's favorite gift |
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| Do you want to play pool with me? |
Daddy and mommy went to visit Tate in the NICU and that left Papa, Gigi, and Mimi to watch Ashley for a couple of hours. I am told she was only a little fussy. :) Tate on the other hand was doing great. He weighed over 5 pounds and the doctor told them he might be able to be home before New Year's- that's only one week away! We hope he can keep getting stronger and drink all of his bottles so that everyone can spend more time with him!
We spent the rest of the day at Papa and Gigi's and had a delicious Christmas dinner that Gigi made and played board games
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Happy Birthday Jesus!
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