Christmas Eve and Day

Me and the boys took off to my parents house on Tuesday so we could spend time with them and my brother Brad who came home all the way from Hawaii. We always feel so blessed when he comes to visit. It was so awesome to have the whole family there for Christmas. Tom couldn't come until Christmas Eve after work. We had a lot of fun that week. Brad and I took a trip to visit my grandparents which are Ben and Sam's great grandparents. Ben loved playing with their new dog Pooky and driving great grandpa's golf cart.Grandma had a great time loving on little baby Sam. And her other baby.
Ben had so much fun playing with his uncles. They would get him so wound up. He still talks about both of them a lot. Brad is so amazing with babies. He helped me out so much while Tom wasn't there. He is going to make a great dad someday.
This was our first year doing the nativity with all of the great grandchildren. We had to throw their costumes together at the last minute. For our first year and trying to do it with four 2 year olds I think the kids did pretty good. Leah wouldn't put on a costume and Ben didn't want to sit and wouldn't give up his pretzels (He gave one of them to Baby Jesus as a gift from the wise men). Sam slept through half of it. I think it is things like this that make it such a great family memory. I have already started working on costumes for next year.
Ben had a lot of fun unwrapping all of his gifts. Each time he would start to open one he would say "Is it a car?" He was right about 3/4 of the time.

Santa didn't come to my parents house he left the boys' presents at our house. So the next morning when Ben got up it was like Christmas all over again. Ben loves his new bike! Thanks Santa.