Celebrating Christmas

The holidays were wonderful! Ben had off work from Christmas Eve until January 3rd... it was so nice to have him around. The boys couldn't get enough of their dad. They were both daddy's boys the whole time. We enjoyed staying at home and traveling back and forth to Rexburg to be with extended family.

Christmas Eve was spent at my in-laws with all of Ben's siblings and with Grandpa and Grandma Blackham. We had a little musical get together. Ben even pulled out his violin for the occasion! I love hearing him play, but unfortunately it doesn't happen very often these days. After opening the traditional Christmas jammies, we headed home to prepare for Christmas morning.

Here's the house all ready for the boys the next morning. And I even finished the stockings I started the Christmas season Gavin was born. I still want to put names on them, but other than that they are finally done!

The (sort of) grand entrance...

We were so blessed by so many. Thank you to all of you who sent gifts for the boys and for us. We were all very spoiled this year. We couldn't have asked for anything else. We had a lot of fun opening presents, especially Gavin. Even Xander started to get into it, though after a while he was done and wanted to play with what he already had. Gavin didn't even hardly help anyone else open there presents, at least not until he didn't have any more to open for himself!

I just laugh every time I look at these...

After web-camming with my family and letting Xander take a nap, we headed to Rexburg for the rest of the day. We opened a few more presents. Gavin loved and still very much loves the train set Grandma Ann and Grandpa Kevin got for the boys. By this point, Xander just had fun playing with packing peanuts instead of messing with more presents!

The rest of the holidays were great with the exception of some sick kiddos... again. But we're glad to be back to our regular daily routine... it just helps with the sanity of all involved ;) Thanks again to all those who helped make our holidays great... whether it was gifts, food, games, keeping an eye on my boys, etc.!