Merry Christmas Part 1

We're finally home and settled back into a somewhat "normal" routine after a wonderful whirlwind of Christmas celebrations.  I'm going to break the posts up a bit, since we had three celebrations in two days...might be a bit of picture overload!  Our first Christmas was with my parents on Christmas Eve.  We always have a great time with everyone there.  The weather was perfect...since there's so many of us, we have Christmas in the garage, and this year we didn't need to run the heat hardly at all!

 Stacey and I decided that next year we don't need presents...just big boxes!  The kids had a blast in these!

Before we opened gifts, we did some family photos.  The little ones weren't thrilled they had to wait, but I'm glad we did.  Good memories of a great Christmas!

 Grandma Debbie and Grandpa Jim with their grands!

 Not our best family photo, but glad to have one.

 Stacey, Jason and their beautiful daughters

I think the caption by the tree makes this one the best photo of the night!  So excited for these two!!!

 Matt and Allison's gorgeous girls and handsome son!

 Aunt Cathy, Uncle Ken and their boys.  So glad they come and spend Christmas with us!

 Uncle Dave and Aunt Linda.  I love that they live so close to us again!

 Grandma Great and all her great-grands!

I love this one...the littles are cracking up over something.  Not sure what it was, but it must have been funny!

We are so lucky to have this lady in our lives.  Sue has been friends with Mom since Stacey met her daughter (Vanessa) in elementary school.  We've spent lots of time together over the years and we love having Sue spend Christmas with us!

After family pictures and some really great food, we got down to business with the presents!  The kids were beyond excited!

 Kyran was running around like crazy with his new hay baler...looks like Grandma Debbie is getting ready to go chase him!

 Ben was so excited to pick out presents at school for his family.  Grandpa got a pen with "Grandpa" on it.  He was so excited for Grandpa to open it!

 Solving the worlds problems...

 Grandpa Jim got a sweater to match Evan...two handsome guys!

Spike took in all the festivities like this.  He has such a rough life.  All that laying around, eating and sleeping sure gets a cat down!

We had a great time with family and friends.  It was a perfect Christmas and the boys made out like bandits!  We loaded up and headed home around 11:00 to set out cookies for Santa.  Ben was out like a light before we got to the highway.  Kyran, on the other hand, was still awake 2 hours later when we pulled in the drive, ha ha!  That one keeps us on our toes!