Christmas.

Our holiday traditionally starts on Christmas Eve with my dad's side of the family.

While the rest of us pigged out on tamales, the kids ate chicken nuggets.  Bleck.  They totally missed out.  My grandma tore it up this year!

First round of presents on Christmas Eve.

My sister's husband was in town for the holiday.

We ended Christmas Eve by putting out a plate of cookies for Santa.  Along with some carrots for the reindeer.

After the kids got in bed I had the husband go outside and shake some jingle bells.  LOL

The kids totally thought it was santa.  I told them they better hurry up and fall asleep because santa doesn't stop at the houses where kids are awake.

Man, they were asleep in record time!

Christmas morning started later than I expected.  Kaeleigh had said she was going to be up at 5am, but we had to wake them up after 7am!

Kaeleigh was looking a little sleepy, but very excited also.

Santa got a little carried away with stocking stuffers.  I had to put a couple of things in bags.

Our stockings were hilarious.  I found them last year at Bed Bath & Beyond. 

Maylyn's said, "Dear Santa, I can explain..."

And Kaeleigh's said, "Been good all year...nearly."

Even Jake got a stocking!  I've never seen that dog so excited.  He kept running from toy to toy.

See how excited they were about their stocking stuffers?

I was equally excited about my stocking.  The husband knows me very well.  Hello Starbucks, I'll be seeing you soon.

I don't even have to go out for coffee anymore if I don't want to.  The husband got me the coffee maker I've been talking about for months!

See my excitement?  I am spoiled.

Santa brought the girls what they wrote to him for.

The rest of Christmas day was spent with family.

We headed to my parent's house for Christmas round 3.

These kids cleaned up in the present department!

We got to spend time with some new family members.  My sister's in-laws came and the girls got to hold their new cousin Madison. (When I wasn't stealing her away.)

My brother even took the girls outside to jump rope!

We ended our Christmas celebration back at our house with my father-in-law and Christmas presents round 4 and a lot of baked goods.  I tried a new sugar cookie recipe this year and it rocked!

We had a great time this year, but I'm so glad it's over!  I had that Christmas tree down the very next day.

 I hope you all had a wonderful holiday!