This Christmas

We spent our Christmas weekend with my family at my parents' house.  Unfortunately, Brandon got sick on Friday so he was out of commission that day, but we had a great time regardless.

We spent a lot of time chasing around and playing with these girls:

Wearing matching pajamas:

Leaving cookies, milk and notes for Santa:

Opening gifts and playing with our new toys:

And how could we forget, re-enacting the Christmas story:

After our time in Pratt, we headed back to Wichita to celebrate Christmas with my dad's extended family.  We had a great lunch and played Dirty Santa with the whole crew.  While my cupcake stand was opened by my cousin who is in college at KSU, he rolled with it and thought it could be used as a shot holder...lol!  Luckily, my aunt showed him mercy and stole it from him.

Here is a pic of my dad's family, minus one sister and one brother.  Could the brothers look anymore alike?!?!

After we finished playing Dirty Santa, Brandon and I had to scoot out to go celebrate Christmas with his family.

We started out the afternoon watching "The Little Fockers", which was pretty funny.  His family has a tradition of seeing a movie on Christmas Day, so it was fun to be able to carry it on, even though we weren't together on Christmas.

After the movie, we headed back to his sister's house to eat pizza and open gifts.  This year, Brandon's parents wrote out Bible verses on slips of paper and before we opened a gift we had to read the verse.  All of the verses represented ways that they prayed for us this year and in the years to come.  This was a great way to remember why we celebrate Christmas and to slow the gift opening.


Pam and Craig opening their gifts:

Justin and Ashley reading their verses:

The boys got head lamps from Grandma Cathy:

We were definitely blessed this Christmas, so I will have to do another post to show off our awesome gifts!