Christmas Around Town

Family Christmas celebrations began for us on Saturday. We celebrated with the McCay side of the family all afternoon. The food was wonderful and the boys were spoiled rotten with toys from all of the aunts, uncles, and cousins. We came home thinking that Santa didn't need to stop at our house anymore.

Sunday we headed to Leeds to celebrate with Jason's mother's side of the family. Eli was perfect and Walker enjoyed running around in a different environment. He played with his older cousin, Madison, and had a blast showing off his tricks and eating banana pudding.

Monday the boys went to Gammie and Grin's early in the morning to make Christmas cookies for Santa. Jason and I had a wonderful breakfast date and then headed out to do some shopping. It was a peaceful way to start the day, and the boys had a great time as well.

For lunch we headed to Pop's and Grandma Jayne's for ham and celebration. Walker even took a little rest in a big boy bed. Eli crawled all around and only ended up with one bumped chin at the end of the day. Pops and Grandma Jayne did far too much for Christmas, but the boys will be appreciative for years to come.

Both the boys feel asleep in the car shortly after we left. So we drove around, picked up some Christmas Chick-fli-a, and went to church for the candlelight service. The boys were perfect and stayed with us for the whole service. We came home and got everyone tucked into bed to wait for Santa's arrival.

The boys were so good through all of this running around and changing up their schedules. I was very worried that things could go very bad after three days of missed naps and late nights, but they did beautifully. Jason told them that even if they had been bad all year, they had been so good these past few days that Santa was sure to visit. Of course, they have been good all year so that wasn't a worry.

Side note: Jason and I did not remember our camera for the majority of these adventures. I know, I know we are terrible parents, I apologize. There were plenty of relatives with cameras around, so I hope to gather up some images from them. I will pass along photos of these grand adventures as they arrive.