Christmas Eve

I'm blogging!!!  It's a miracle!!!

If you didn't see my last post, my plan is to start with Christmas and get caught up with our current life (hopefully in the next few days) and then go back and fill in old posts from the past 2 months while still keeping up with current events.  We'll see how that goes and honestly it really all depends on Avery and how well he is sleeping.  If he is sleeping good and I can blog at night after the boys are down and I'm not exhausted from the night before, then I will be good to go!  So sleep Avery sleep!!!

Christmas is always hard for our family because we have three families to see.  This year, we spent Christmas Eve with the Prathers, Christmas Day with my family and the Sunday after Christmas with the Magruders.

Christmas Eve, Stephen worked half a day and then came and picked us up and we went over to Steve and Nancy's house to exchange presents with them.

Before we opened presents, I asked Steve to take a picture of all four of us because we still did not have a picture of the four of us together and we were all dressed and looking nice (aka I had taken a shower, flat ironed my hair, put make up on, and didn't have spit up on me yet).

Stephen was trying to convince Stephen to take a picture so Steve was making sure everything was ok and snapped this one of Avery and I:



Here is the four of us. Not the best picture, but it is the best we were going to get.



We had about 10 pictures where Stephen looked similar to this:



Steve was holding Avery and he was being cute so I took some pictures of him.







This baby brings us so much joy!!  We are so grateful for our two amazing boys!



That smile makes me melt!



Stephen started opening his gifts, but needed some help so I didn't get many pictures.







He got a tent and a matching sleeping bag.  He loves them!







He also got a remote control car, but Daddy couldn't get it to work that day.



We got a go pro camera and Stephen was showing Steve how you can wear it on your head.



Then Stephen wanted a turn.





Avery was exhausted and fell asleep with Papaw.



We then met the rest of the family at church and then went to Pappasitos for dinner.  We had a ton of fun at dinner, as usual.  Stephen, Robbie and Izzy had a blast together!  These pictures are all from Mary's phone.



She had her flash on and Stephen covered his eyes because it was so bright.



The whole family, minus Mike.



It was a really fun night!

After dinner we drove all the way out to my parents house to spend the night there and spend Christmas Day with them.  We were all exhausted!!

And with that, Avery is awake (he went to bed an hour ago), so this may be it for tonight!