The Parr Family: Christmas

Christmas with Brayden was so much fun this year....he was very into it more so than ever before. Greg's parents came to spend Christmas Eve with us. After going to the children's service at our church, we came back for dinner and presents. Brayden was very excited about opening gifts! His favorite by far was the new kids camera from Grammy and Grampa. It has barely left his side since he got it and there are already a ton of pictures on the camera (I hope he'll leave mine alone now!) After opening gifts, Brayden spread out some reindeer food for Santa's reindeer so they could find the house and we left cookies & milk out for Santa. Here are a few pictures:

On Sunday morning, we woke up to find that Santa had come! Brayden was very excited about his gifts, especially the Spiderman webshooter he had been asking for. It was the first thing he spotted! He was also very excited that Santa had left a new bed for Callie. Santa also brought an art easel with accessories, superhero cape & mask, hot wheels cars & wall track, games, etc. Brayden went from one thing to the other. Greg & I loved watching the expressions & excitement on his face....Greg said he had woken up at 5:00 and had trouble going back to sleep because he was too excited to see Brayden's reactions! After eating breakfast, we opened our gifts to one another. Again, Brayden loved opening gifts and kept wanting more : )

We went to church on Sunday morning and then had lunch at my parents house with the rest of the family. It was noisy, chaotic and wild as usual, but I wouldn't have it any other way. The cousins love to play together when everyone is here...it reminds me of the days when I played with my cousins at Christmas. After lunch, it was time for another round of opening presents. Talk about chaos! All the children were super excited to open their new toys...Brayden got some pretty neat stuff Christmas Day, so he should be entertained for awhile, I hope!