As always over the holidays I take a TON of pictures, making sure I am capturing every moment. Especially when it was my first Christmas in my own home and hosting Christmas Eve dinner for the first time. I wanted to make it very special for my family.
Kyle was working, but thankfully I was surrounded by many wonderful people...my awesome family (all of Kyle's family was out of town too). I missed Kyle so much! Before dinner we went to the children's service at St. Dominic's (the boys didn't do so well lol...big surprise there, they just couldn't sit still). Afterwards we had dinner back at my house. I made it so we were all able to eat in the same room, something that can be difficult with such a large group. I decorated the tables with linens, and candles. I wanted it to feel like a fancy- but not too fancy, casual- but not too casual, warm and cozy dinner. I hope I achieved that.
We did our tradition, that we started last Christmas Eve, of having a white elephant gift exchange. It is always good fun and provides us with some solid belly laughs. My white elephant gift was a lawn ornament (the frog playing the trumpet ha ha). The boys (Kaleb, Kaden, and Kody) got to open some gifts, one gift they all got was super hero capes and masks...a big hit among them! We enjoyed one another's company, and yummy food. It was a good night!
After everyone left and went home, the boys and I got Santa's plate ready. His snack consisted of cookies, brownies, milk, and lettuce and peppers for his reindeer.
Christmas morning we were greeted with full stockings and presents from Santa. At this point I was really missing Kyle and couldn't wait for him to come home later Christmas Day. I was so sad he was missing our first Christmas morning in our new home. Thank heavens for pictures and video.
We headed over to my parent's house, which is 2 minutes from ours, in our jammies for Christmas morning breakfast and more presents. My mom had everyone over for dinner that evening and I was so excited when Kyle finally got home.
Later on in the evening after everyone left my parent's house, we got to open more gifts with Kyle and we got some fun stuff. One thing in particular I loved were the awesome plane and rocket costumes my parents gave the boys. My sister Laura liked it too lol. We were so blessed to have a wonderful Christmas. 
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