(Yes, it's January 20th and I'm blogging about Christmas. Yikes!)
Here are some pictures from all of the Christmas celebrations. From Legoland with the Goads to our community’s tree lighting with Cousin Helen, we had a lot of fun this year!
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| This picture cracks me up. Shows their personalities! |
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| Clapping for the carolers. |
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| One of the boys in the neighborhood has a December birthday, so we all enjoyed hot cocoa and treats one night. |
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| Until we have a fireplace, we'll use our hutch to hang our stockings... |
We spent Christmas Eve with my parents, Jeff’s parents, Uncle Brennan, Auntie Moosh and of course, Cousin Helen. Avery gets so excited (like crazy excited) when Helen is around. And, on Christmas Eve just when we thought she couldn’t get more excited, Papa and Danda revealed their gift to the girls…
A play house!! To say the girls were over the moon, on top of the world and on cloud 9 would not do their reactions justice. They loved it more than anyone could anticipate and yes, there were tears when it was time to stop playing and go home for the night. Thankfully, we all visit Danda and Papa often and can play in the house any time we want.
Christmas was very special this year. Avery, being 3.25 years, understood and enjoyed all the excitement this time of year brings. She was giddy about Christmas morning, albeit a little nervous that Santa was coming in our house to drop off the gifts. Side fact, she actually wasn’t having that. All month long she warned us that she was not comfortable with Santa coming in, so we told her Santa said he was happy to leave the gifts outside our front door. Ha! Knowing Avery, it may be a tradition in our house that Santa always leaves his gifts outside.
After our intimate Christmas morning just the three of us, we headed up to Auntie Lindsay and Uncle Pat’s beautiful home in Hermosa Beach along with an array of grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles. A house full of people and so much love! The best part of the trip up was seeing Auntie Lindsay and her adorably perfect baby bump. Baby Wade will be here very soon and we can’t wait to meet the little guy!
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| A portion of the Christmas day group. Beautiful afternoon at the beach in Hermosa. |
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| Avery helped GramCin pass out the gifts... |
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| And wanted to be involved in the gift opening part, too. |
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| If she got any closer she would be in his lap! |
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| Love. |
What a wonderful Christmas this year! We are so very blessed!
(Oh, and I’m not going to do a blog post about New Years, because it was ridiculously anticlimactic. Jeff and I had a normal night with Avery, put her to bed, enjoyed a few cocktails, had a delicious dinner and both fell asleep on the couches before 8:30 p.m. Come on, Simpsons!)
FPT - California "snow" angels
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