christmas day

how was your christmas?

ours was filled with

family

church

food

presents

traveling

desserts

and love.

 

of course, brette's first christmas was more for ronnie and i than her,

but i loved getting to share all our holiday traditions.

on christmas eve we went to see santa.

she loved it.

 

 

 

 

 

that night we went to mass as a family.

(my parents, my brother, sis-n-law, their two girls and us)

and the only spot available for six adults and three kiddos

was in the second row, dead center.

i was praying that brette made it through with no tears,

and we were in luck!

all the girls did wonderful.

and brette got to show off her new dress i bought her.

 

 

 

then it was back to our house for pizza and the anticipation of santa.

once everyone left and we got brette to bed,

ronnie and i watched a christmas story,

my favorite xmas movie and a turner christmas eve tradition.

the next morning b woke up at 5:45 (oh. hell. no.)

 i fed her and read her xmas stories

until 7:00 and decided it was time for dear old dad to join us.

i made hot chocolate, put on some christmas tunes

and turned on all our christmas lights.

the setting was perfection.

 

 

 

we showed b her gifts under the tree and

ronnie and i squabbled about his lack of skill using the video camera.

(um yes, i do want heads in video.)

so then he wanted me to redo it all so he could refilm it,

but i refused, so now, when brette watches the video of her first christmas,

i have no head. 

sa-weet.

i swear, sometimes...

 

then b went down for a nap and ronnie thought

we should do laundry and pick up the house.

i'm sorry.

i don't do chores on the holidays.

so once again, i refused.

you can tell ronnie and i were not off to a great start.

when she woke up

i dressed her in my old christmas dress from my first christmas.

i love that my mom saved all these dresses.

 

 (ahhhh-dorable)

 

 

 and we hit the road to my parent's house.

aunts, uncles, grandma, cousins

everyone was there.

i think total we had 24.

it's chaotic, but fun.

we ate lots and lots

and then went back for more.

we opened gifts and talked for hours.

i loved it.

i am already anticipating the amazingness of next year

with these three little ladies.

 

(matching pj's provided by aunt jaime)

 

so yeah,

basically, we had a wonderful day.

hope yours was just as special.

happy holidays!