Monday, January 3, 2011

christmas celebration...karaffa style

On Christmas Eve, we celebrated by attending a Christmas Eve service with Oma at her church. It was really good...Brady & I even got to sit in the service with them. My favorites were the singing and the lighting of the candle. Afterwards, we had Poppy, Nana, Uncle Blair, Aunt Blip Blip, and McKinly over to celebrate Christmas together. We had a fun time together!

Our family picture before we got in our jammies!!
(L-R ~ UncleBlair, McKinly, Aunt Blip Blip with Baby Boy #2 due mid-April), Nana, Poppy, Me, Daddy, Brady, & Mommy with Baby #3 due Feb. 4th)
Poppy & Nana with their 3 grandchildren
Our Family
After enjoying some appetizers and desserts, we got to change into our jammies before opening gifts. We were comfy and ready to go!
I loved opening presents again...
...and so did Brady!
I got all sorts of goodies from everyone, like puzzles, games, clothes, and books. I loved this Hello Kitty alarm clock/CD player for my room!
Brady just loved opening the gifts...he got all sorts of awesome goodies as well, like books, tools, snuggie, smart e bear, and more!
More opening...
...and more fun!
My Great Mamaw, Great Aunt Cookie, and Great Aunt Deb gave me this Hello Kitty Karaoke machine/CD player. I have already had so much fun being a "star" in our house...jammin' to all sorts of fun music!
"Sure, Mommy...a quick smile...but then I have to get back to opening my gift."
Meanwhile, Brady doesn't look up...he is too busy opening!
Great Mamaw, Great Aunt Cookie, and Great Aunt Deb sent Brady this deluxe power tool set. He LOVED it...and plays with them all day, every day! Each tool makes noise, and he is always busy at work...fixing something around the house!
We all gave Poppy & Nana a big frame with pictures of us in it. They really liked that!
Here is Brady...ready to weld something!
I am really into puzzles right now. So, while Brady was busy welding things together with McKinly, Daddy, Nana, and I were busy putting together one of my Tinkerbell puzzles from Uncle Blair & Aunt Blip Blip. It took us some time, but we got the 100 piece puzzle all put together! We had a great time!
After our gift exchange, we finished the night with watching "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." It's a favorite in our family. Then, it was off to bed so Santa could stop by. We sure had a fun night!

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