Christmas

This was our first Christmas to spend at home starting our own traditions. Christmas Eve we attended our church's Christmas Eve service with Franny. I am glad that we went even though Bailey didn't even make it through the singing and it was a kid friendly service. Luckily I found a large group of parents and kids in the lobby to hang out with. Once we got home we finished our second to last story time and put up our ornament for our Advent tree. Then, we opened our "jammies" and quickly put them on. This was one of the traditions that my mom used to do for my siblings and I when I was still living at home that I am taking for my own. Here's us in the only picture we have with our tree this year.

Christmas Day was spent mostly at Franny's for lunch and time with her, Uncle Kyle, Aunt Ali, Owen, and Rebecca. Bailey definately got the hang of opening presents. This was Bailey and Owen opening one of their presents.


Christmas at Franny's wouldn't be complete without naptime (for adults and kids) and the playing of games. Bailey did something really big and actually napped in Franny's bed and again at my Nana's house. Those of us who stayed up got to play a game, which is something I have been craving to do for months, but has seemed almost impossible with kids, bedtimes, illnesses, and schedules.

One of the other new traditions we started this year was to make a Happy Birthday Jesus Cake. I got this specific cake idea from a blog I follow and with my sister-in-laws cooking expertise this is what we pulled off.

The day after Christmas was spent in Santo with my family where we just missed seeing all the snow they got. Bailey loved playing in and eating the few inches of snow that were left over. She and Pa even got into a small snowball fight from what I heard.

Bailey got many fun gifts to enjoy. The picture below was taken a couple days after Christmas when Bailey and Owen were enjoying a present my brother got her while we were watching the Aggies lose to Georgia. He got her a bag of these balls that we put in the pack n play and let her jump and play in.

Almost all of my younger memories of Christmas at some point involve me heading to my Nana's house for food and opening presents and this year was no different. Seems like Bailey takes after my love of my Nana's cooking because this is what she did to a cake when no one was looking.

Sadly we didn't take many pictures this year (something I want to make sure doesn't happen again), but it was a wonderful Christmas.