Christmas on New Year's

As mentioned in this post, Ryan and I did not travel for Christmas this year.  We are fortunate to have family that works around our needed schedules and my parents flew out on New Year's Day so we could still celebrate with them.  

Sunday afternoon we all went down to my parent's house and spent the day together.  We played, ran around the house, ate a delicious dinner, and then once the kiddos were sleeping the adults celebrated the holiday by opening presents.  We decided we could focus more on ourselves (yes, selfish, I know) while they slept, and then in the morning it could be all about them.  Our celebration was cut a little short by one specific munchkin, who shall remain nameless (starts with a J, ends with a Paul), who has recently learned the finer points of climbing out of a crib/pack 'n play.  He apparently woke up at some point and decided it wasn't fair that the adults were doing fun things without him and we caught him climbing up the stairs to join us.  He wasn't keen on going back to sleep but all in all it was a really fun evening.  

Monday morning we "re-enacted" Christmas and had my dad's "famous" breakfast roll (a variation on Monkey Bread) and let the kids open their presents.  They did a great job taking turns and sharing.  We even managed to get a couple cute pictures of them all together.  

I am so grateful that my parents decided to come during the holiday season, it is so fun to be all together!


Wyatt and Carly cracking each other up.


John Paul feeding Carly a (fake) cookie.  
Reminder: Carly is 3 1/2 months OLDER than my son...can't tell from this pic.


The best one I got of all three.  Don't know what they are looking at but I love their faces!


Wyatt and Carly opening a joint present.  Carly is all girl and had already 
"tried" on one of her gifts.


John Paul with his new front loader.  It's apparently easier to carry it around 
than use those wheels it has!


Meme and her "babies"   So sweet!


 
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