We had such a great Christmas this year! I seriously love Christmas so much more now that I am a mom and I think I get just as excited about it if not more than the kids. Sorry lots of pictures!
Christmas Eve
Here we are making our cookies for Santa. The kids love doing this and I definitely think it's a highlight every year.
They were so into the elves this year and whether or not they are real. This is them looking out our back window for elf footprints.
Frosting the cookies.
Every year the Buckley family does a service project so this year we took some donations to the woman's shelter. I always think this is such a good experience for our kids and I'm so grateful that we do it.
On Christmas Eve we always have a delicious Chinese dinner. Here is Lauryn being such a good helper this year and making won tons. She was so proud of herself and she did such a good job. It was super yummy!
Here is our Nativity crew. Don't they look great? Lauryn was an angel, Braxton was a lamb, and TJ was the shepard.
I thought this was such a cute picture. Lauryn and Mykailyn are the youngest girl cousins on the Buckley side and they were given these cute tutu's from their Aunt Kristen. Lauryn actually got another one from my sister on Christmas that she had made. She loves both of them!
Braxton was so cute opening his presents this year. He loved all of them and was so fun this year!
Getting Ready for Santa
On our way home from the Buckley's on Christmas Eve, Braxton fell asleep in the car and we couldn't get him to wake up to open his one present and do all the fun traditions with us. It was kind of sad but we still had fun with Lauryn.
Here she is getting the pan of flour ready to put in front of the fireplace so that we can catch Santa's footprint. We love this and always get a nice old big footprint!
Throwing the Reindeer Dust out so they would come. This is the part Braxton was so excited to do but maybe next year.
Lighting our lantern for out porch so that Santa would see it and make it to our house.
And here is Lauryn pouring the milk for Santa. We had such a good Christmas Eve and doing all of our little traditions with our kids puts me into the Christmas spirit more than anything.
Christmas Day
This was on Christmas morning after Santa came. Lauryn and Braxton both asked for bikes. It was so fun to see they got them.
Here's our morning family picture. Ahhhh how hideous!
Every year for Christmas we get toghether in the morning at my mom's for a big breakfast but this year we had it out at my house. It was so nice to not have to leave and go somewhere else and my kids just got to play with their presents all morning long. It was so much fun having everyone at our house this year!
I had to work in the evening so TJ and the kids headed back over to his mom and dad's and I was off to the hospital so there aren't very many more pictures to share. We had an awesome Christmas and thank you so much to everyone for the gifts. We scored big this year!
This was about 2 minutes after we put the kids in the car to come home on Christmas. They were so tired! I'm sad it's all over and I can't wait for next year with 3 kids!
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10 comments:
kimmy, those are such cute traditions....i might just have to steel the ''catchinh santa's footprint'' one when my kids are a littel older.
that chinese food for christmas eve sounds delicious! you might have to give me your wonton recipe.
you all look super cute in your pictures, but how in the world do you not look pregnant yet ya skinny-minny!
love this post. That one of Lauryn with the baby is so stinkin cute
I love that... your kids are in robes all morning long, zack is wearing a apron, that the snow is falling in the picture of lauryn feeding the reindeer,that you dont participate in the nativity-neither do I, and theat tj has a pink towell on his head -I'm sure that is exactly what the sheperd had on his head,that braxton has his hand in his pocket in the first piture, and the lauryn is old enough to put the flour on thge cookie sheet. I hate that you apoligize when your posts are long-i like them this way.Merry christmas Bucklys-I love ya
The last picture is the best one of all! Christmas looks like a lot of fun at your house! I agree with you that it just seems so much fun now that I'm a Mom and that my kids are getting old enough to enjoy it!
I love all of your traditions with your kids! They are all so fun. Lauryn is such a cutie...I can't believe how old she is!! Lauryn and Braxton look adorable in their robes on Christmas morning! I totally agree that Christmas is so much fun with kids! The excitement is priceless!
I love the last picture...too funny! I also am going to steal some of your traditions. We have a few, but since Spencer is so little and scared of Santa we haven't done a lot of them yet. What did you use for the reindeer dust? Who does all the costumes for the nativity scene? By the way you hardly look pregnant. I can't even see a bump!
Kimmie...you win a prize for being a great mom. Your kids will treasure those memories forever. It's so fun to see what everyone's up to via the blog world. How did those wonton's end up?
This is the best post. We felt like we missed out on alot of your Christmas this year since you had to work. So I am really glad we got to see all of these pictures. Love you guys!!!
Looks like you had a great christmas! Your kids are so adorable. I love the chinese food idea! I love wontons! How fun!
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