Christmas and Santa!!!

Every year we go over to my aunt Carrie's house for Christmas Eve. We pull names on Thanksgiving and see who each kid gets. There are 10 grand kids and 12 (adding Bailey) great grand kids, so it gets a little much trying to buy for everyone!! Carrie makes all the food and we all try and bring a side or dessert. This year I brought a strawberry cheese cake and everyone made fun of me for it being so small! haha...well, I had a couple of slices and there was one or two left, I promise!! ;) After eating and letting the kids play for a while we go ahead and let the kids get into a circle and wait for their gifts to be passed around. I remember doing this as a kid and it's so exciting!! Still is!

My sister (sickening how perfect she is!) and I always like to get a pic of each other and a family shot! ;)

So after we left Carrie's house we headed home and had the kids sprinkle reindeer food and set out some snacks for Santa :)

annnd....I forgot to take a picture of the snacks!! Grr...well, we set out carrot sticks for the reindeer and cookies for Santa! Oops, can't believe I forgot to snap a pic!!
I did manage to snap a quick picture or two of the tree when Santa left but we always video tape them opening up their gifts so no pictures of that either! Ugh, I'll work on that. haha

On Christmas day I wake up the kids, can't take the anticipation of them waking up!! So, I run up and wake them because I can't take it anymore!! haha...I literally laid in bed and kept asking Tommy if he thought I should go wake them up or not! He knows I'm crazy so it's okay ;) So, anyway, the kids get up and unwrap all their gifts and then Daddy puts everything together for them. After they play for awhile it's time to get dressed and head over to uncle Steve's for more gifts!! Steve made all kinds of goodies and we brought salad and potatoes. Yummy!! He always has tons of food and it was a really good time :) We all kind of stayed in the basement and the kids played while we talked and ate food. We pulled names with them too and the adults each pulled a couple. Matt and Lori had us and our gift is to come after Bailey arrives :) So here are some pics of the kids opening all their gifts...

And yes, Brie is wearing the same dress as the night before!! She threw a fit to where it again so here we are! haha...got to love her :) She just felt so pretty in that darn dress, she didn't ever want to take it off!
After we left Steve's house we headed over to my sisters to do presents with my grandma Nancy and Mom and Dad. Phew! These kids get a lot of gifts!!! I was a little stuffed from Steve's house so didn't really want too much at Lindsay's but she made the infamous potato salad and I can never pass that up! :) I brought the lunch meat and bread for everyone and yes, of course, forgot the cheese!! :( Oops! So, after letting the kids play (again) we had them open up even more gifts and exchanged with each other too.  I don't know what happened but I don't have any pictures of that?? The kids had a blast and so did we! It's a long day but love spending it with our families! Can't wait for Bailey to be with us next year!! She will be almost 1!!! Craaaazzzzy!