Christmas Eve

Every year we celebrate Christmas Eve with my family. We open gifts with my immediate family in the afternoon and then celebrate with extended family later on in the evening. Now that we have 2 little ones in the family, our Christmas celebrations have become even more fun. Plus, we finally got to hand off the always unwanted job of playing Santa and delivering gifts to each person to Hannah, who absolutely loved handing out the presents. By default, though, every present that she took from under the tree went to Grandpa. He then redirected her and eventually the gifts all ended up with the right recipient.


Giving Grandpa his Noodle golf balls. We got them for a great deal. Apparently my mom did the same thing last year and later learned that they "hit like rocks". Hopefully the new and improved version that we got him will play better than last year's balls, since we got him 2 full boxes!


A huge hit for Hannah was the purse that Aunt Courtney, Uncle Todd, and Kara got for her. She's been carrying it with her ever since.


Grandma loved her new Snuggie!

Another great gift was the rocking chair from Grandma and Grandpa. Hannah's really been into sitting in chairs her size, so this was right up her alley.


I had to post this one as I think I finally got a picture where she resembles me, at least a little bit (in my old dress riding the horse that my grandpa made when we were little). Yes, I know she's Daddy's girl, but every once in awhile I think I catch a glimpse of myself.