Christmas Day with the Freemans

After opening gifts and playing with Santa's gifts in TN, we loaded up and headed for KY to have Christmas with the Freemans. Christmas was harder than usual because my Mammaw had fallen and broken her leg the week before and was in the hospital. In spite of this, everyone showed up to have Christmas dinner at her house and be together for a few hours on the holidays.


We then went to my parents house for Christmas with my Mom, my Dad, my brother, Nick, Trayton, Ava, Bradley, and I. We had to do Trayton's first so he could get back to his Mom, but that he still enjoyed his gifts and we had fun watching him open them. My dad was on-call and got called out for an hour or so, but he made it back and we finished opening presents.



And what Christmas Day is complete without gas station pizza? We enjoyed pizza for supper and them played Mexican Train Dominoes (which was a gift for my dad). Ava was pretty messy throughout the day. Score was as follows: Dog Bowl - 1, Ava - 0 and Diet Coke - 1, Ava - 0. Thank goodness Trayton had a shirt big enough for Ava, but in her striped pajamas, tennis shoes, and band shirt, she looked like an 80's reject! We got home around 1:00 and were tuckered out.

By the way, if you are wondering why there are not more pictures of Ava with people, it's because she's too darn busy to stay still long enough for a picture!



Ava and my cousin, Jeff - She was friends with anyone who would share a drink or food.

Ava with Uncle Earl

Ava with Uncle Nick and Trayton
Nick and Trayton
Aunt Tiffy and Trayton
Trayton
Heading home
Nick

Mom with her 2 peacock ornaments
Ava with Mounty Tyrone
Commandeering the basket
Gramps giving Ava Mounty Tyrone
Gramps with his gift

Ava and Uncle Nick
Ava and Gramps playing


Me with my Freeman Family Cookbook

She found the chocolate
My 80's reject




One more day of Christmas to go. Christmas with the Rogers Family. Maybe I will get it posted tomorrow in time for New Year's!

25 Days of Christmas - Day 25

As I said earlier, this was the first year that Christmas morning was spent somewhere other than my parents house. Santa brought Ava gifts to TN this year and he did a great job! Since she is still too little to know who Santa is and get excited about Christmas, we were able to get up, shower, and do a little getting ready before getting Ava out of bed. *I know that this is a luxury we will not have in future years!* She was excited about her gifts and liked seeing the new things, but this kid got so many gifts that she just got gifted out. She was so tired of opening things by the 26th!



Here is what Santa brought:

• A Rocking Horse that sings



• Little People Nativity Set



• Little People Santa Train Set



• Mega Blocks



• Pajamas



• A Broom and Dustpan (The biggest hit!)



• Princess Book Set
• Santa Claus Baseball Cards
  

In Ava's Stocking:

• Animal Crackers



• Hello Kitty Hair Barrettes



• A Little Mermaid Camera



• Movie - The Prince of Egypt (she loves the singing!)



• 4 books



• Jingle Bells



• See-n-Say Pablo



• Super Secret Super Spy Uniqua (and when she say this, she said, "Tika!" The cutest things ever!)



• A Dino Sandwich Cutter

And here are a couple more from the 24th that were on my other camera. The first two are of Ava and I making our Christmas ornaments.
In our pajamas from the Christmas Fairy.

25 Days of Christmas - Days 23 and 24

Here are pictures from Day 23 and Day 24.

I took over 500 pictures over the last few days, and it is taking me a while to get them downloaded, sorted, and online. Over the next few days, look for Christmas related posts from our holidays. I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and safe trips back home!





Day 23 - Playing with her new Baby Doll from Nanny and Poppy.

Checking out the Christmas tree with Aunt Bethany.

Pretzel Thief - Ava kept stealing these pretzels from the table. She ate so many of them and always had white chocolate on her face.


Nana rocked her to sleep after a big afternoon.


In her new red wagon from Nana and Pop.
In her new rocking chair from Aunt Bethany.

The Rogers Family