12.30.2011

Santa's Arrival- Christmas Day 2011

Santa came to visit Diva Avery!

The only downside is that we were up all night with her on Christmas Eve.  She had been having a runny nose & cough that evening so we gave her some medicine.  I think the meds made her jumpy because we were up every little bit until 4am with her & we were a huge exhausted mess by Christmas morning. 

Our morning & Christmas day didn't go as planned... we had planned to get up, do Christmas at our house & then head over to my sister in laws sisters house, (Crystal), to celebrate the day with their family & mine with a big lunch & Christmas surprise.   Crystal found out that she is having a GIRL & was announcing the sex of the baby that day.   Unfortunately my sister in law Tiff got really sick, along with her Mom, so we just decided to cancel Christmas day so no one would get sick.  Bless their hearts!  I felt so sad for them!

So my parents ended up coming to our house for a quick lunch thank goodness my Momma had goodies in her refrigerator because all of the stores were closed & I had NO GROCERIES!!!  We ended up making some goodies & everything was great!  I'm not going to lie I was holding back some tears that morning after being exhausted & didn't know how our day was going to go.  But I had to take a breath & realize that it wasn't about that, it was about Jesus' birth! =)

So, Avery got up & opened her presents!










It was lunch time, & was a beautiful day, we took some pictures outside!




Ready to enjoy some yummmmmms!



After Avery & Chad napped we got showers & headed over to his parents for Christmas dinner.  His sweet Momma made amazing steaks, baked potatoes, asparagus, shrimp, salad & dessert! 










The girls got some amazing goodies from their grandparents!!!  They were hilarious fighting over each others when they GOT THE SAME STUFF! Hilarious!




We enjoyed being at my Mother in-laws, I just loved her tree this year!  Beautiful!


We all enjoyed some game play present exchanging & thought it was hilarious that our newest addition, Corey,  (my sis in laws man), opened a Razorback cup, when he is the BIGGEST Gators fan, he is from FL.  It was a fun time!


It was a nice day with the family!

Christmas Eve 2011

Christmas Eve Day we made some peanut butter balls!  I had Chad help me because by this time & all the parties I made these suckers for, I was POOPED & burnt out on making them, ha!

Avery had fun!






We always spend Christmas Eve at Chad's cousin Jarod & Gretchen's house.  They always host the big family dinner & game exhange!  We all decided to make Mexican this year so we all were in charge of a dish & had a huge dinner.  Afterwards we enjoyed playing some dirty Santa... always a fun game!!!
Gretchen's home is just beautiful!






















Christmas Eve we put deer yummies in the yard!





Off to bed for Santa!