Christmas TIme

Christmas Day was a very fun filled day for us. We woke up at the Bland's house. Megan just got back from working her shift and her and Dev were giving each other their Christmas upstairs. I heard Blake's crying in her room so I grabbed her and fed her. We then all woke up and headed upstairs. 

Blakelee in her new Christmas Jammie's!

Little Beau man!! Love his bed head :)

We all got the presents from under the tree and handed them out to everyone. Christmas then began!! We got some amazing gifts and were super excited to see everyone else gifts.

We got lots of clothes, shoes, pots and pans, jewelry, socks, cologne, golf stuff, and lots of things for miss Blakelee!!

Our Disneyland book we gave to Debbie and Scott.

Her first time trying something other then her bottle. Merry Christmas to her.

The best hair ever!! Love this little man.

Dressed and ready for the Holiday.

Next over to my parents for more gifts and yummy dinner!!!

Lindsay and Zach were there as well we all got so spoiled. More clothes, curling iron, food storage things, and lots of toys and clothes for Blake's. After gifts my grandparents arrived and we sat down for honey baked ham!! Mmm.. Delish.

Love all these girls!!! They are so darling.

Hahah such a cutie.

Toms from Griffin :)

We of course had the Christmas Story on. Love this show!!

Grandpa and Grandma Anderson

Grandpa and Grandma Payne

I wanted to get pictures with all the grandparents for Blakelee's first Christmas.

Our Family!!!! We had such a fun Christmas together. It is so much fun having a little one around for the Holidays and we can not wait for the years to come to watch her get so excited about Santa! It will be the best feeling in the world.

Merry Christmas hope everyone had a great day. We sure did. It is so sad to see it go but I know that next year will be even better. Traditions were a bit different this year with grandma's doing their parties on different days but it all worked out. I know that this holiday will continue to change with traditions since we are all having kids and will be having our own Christmas mornings within a year or so. But it will be so much fun having that as our OWN tradition!! :)

Ho Ho Ho!!

Christmas Eve

In the morning both Griff and I had to work... So my parents watched Blakelee until we got off. I only had to work till 2, Griff had to work a full shift.. Dang it!! When I got off I headed to my parents and we just hung out. When Griff got off he headed to my parents house. We wanted to go grab a bite to eat so we headed out and after driving around to a few restaurants we found that Applebee's was open!! We usually go to my Grandma Anderson's on Christmas Eve but they did their party a week early. So our Eve was very different. We played it by ear and just made it up as we went along. It ended up being a fun dinner with my parents!! When we got back to their house we watched a Christmas Story since it is on TV all day!!

Afterwards we headed out so we could go see his family. When we got to their house no one was home. They were out at the Airport picking Devin up since he has been on his Medical Rotations, he was only able to spend about 22 hours with us... Bummer!!! Once everyone was home we sat and chatted for a bit. I gave Griff 2 gifts that he was able to open, they were pj's for him and Blakelee!!! This is now our Tradition. I loved having one gift to open every Christmas Eve and being able to wear my new pj's to bed! We put Blake's and Beau to bed so we all could play some games. We played Bingo and Wolf, it was a very fun night!! We stayed up WAY to late but enjoyed every minute of it. 

Gifts from my parents to his!

What a great Christmas Eve.

We went to bed around 3am so Santa could come!!!

Christmas Party and Lights

On December 22nd my Grandma and Grandpa Payne had their Christmas Party. We usually do this party on Christmas morning but everyone is having their own traditions and so they decided that they better start having their party a day or 2 early. I got off work early so we were able to make it. We got spoiled!! Lots of fun gifts, cookie sheet, camping things, jewelry, shower gel, and Blakelee got some fun things as well, pillow pet and diapers!!! :)

After gifts we had a lunch and decided to play our White Elephant game. Instead of gifts we do gift cards. We play Apples to Apples and the first win gets to choose the GC that they want. We ended up with Walmart!! You can not go wrong with a card to there, we shop there so much!!

After the party my parents came out to our house to see our Christmas Decorations and give us part of our Christmas presents because it was a bit large!! They gave us a camp stove! We are so excited to use it :). Also they gave us storage shelves. We have been wanting to start our food storage in the basement but we just never had any place for it so now we do!! Yay thanks mom and dad you guys spoiled us. We got some Kneaders for dinner and then headed to Thanksgiving Point to see there lights with Lindsay and Zach's family (Griff didn't feel well this night so he stayed home to feel better.)

It was a very fun night seeing all the fun lights. Also very nice of Zach's mom and dad to invite us to tag along. Blake's fell asleep during the wagon ride. She was tired, it was a BIG day!!

Great night with some great people!!! Love this Holiday!