One more Christmas!

We celebrated Christmas once more on the day after Christmas.  You see, some of Brandon’s cousins were in a horrible car accident on Christmas eve, so everyone was in Houston at different hospitals visiting them on Christmas day – there were six in all.  Two babies, two teens and two adults.  By God’s grace of what is sure to be a Christmas miracle, all are doing okay.  The babies and teens are fully recovered and the adults are getting stronger every day.  After multiple surgeries and lots of prayers, things are looking up.  It was a scary time for all of us but we are so thankful to God for helping them all through it.  Anyways, we did go out to Grandpa and Grandma Zabodyn’s on the 26th and I did manage to get a few pics there, too!

Daddy and his little girl:

Grandpa opening gifts:

Baby Brailey:

Gunner and Dayton wrestling with Ty:

 

  Papa and Brandon:

 

My little leopard Eskimo:

Mallory got the Dora playhouse she’s been wanting:

 

Dayton got a basketball and some Rockets gear – then we told him his real surprise – he had a big basketball goal waiting for him when he got home!

 

I think he was happy!   

Finally finished with Christmas posts!  I’m getting there – slowly but surely!

Christmas Day…

The kiddos woke up early on Christmas morning to find that Santa had indeed came and visited them.  I think they got all they could ask for and then some!  We opened Santa presents while all the grandparents and Clint and Megan and Samantha came over and had breakfast.  Then we went to the Zabodyn’s for gift exchanging over there.  Then it was back home to change clothes and head to my parents for a quiet lunch.  We spent the rest of the day at home enjoying our time together and putting together endless piles of toys!  It was a fun time!

Mommy managed to get a pic of the goods before supreme demolition!

Getting started:

Princess dolls:

Dayton’s big gift from Santa was a Razor dirt bike with matching helmet – he was pretty pumped.  Mommy just is a huge nervous wreck every time he rides it – let’s just say he has yet to master the concept of the hand brake!

Mallory asked Santa for an American Doll so she got her first one – a bitty baby.  She named her Holly and she came with lots and lots of fun accessories and even matching pajamas!

T-R-O-U-B-L-E

Then it was on to DeDe and PaPa’s for more fun:

Mallory got a super cool dune racer so she can try to keep up with Dayton on the dirt bike:

 

Dayton got a 3DSi XL – I’d say he was happy!

We got PaPa some giant Tomahawk steaks!

Aunt Samantha and Aunt Megan opening presents and sporting their new head warmers:

Being silly:

Mommy’s new UGGS:

Trying out the new ride ons:

Playing the new Angry Birds Star Wars game:

Christmas night – sitting in front of the fireplace counting our many blessings!

Mallory and baby Holly the next morning in their matching pjs:

Christmas Eve…

So our Christmas eve was our usual Christmas Eve – we went to mass in the afternoon at 5:00 and then headed to Grandpa Vasut’s for a bit, and then on to my parents’ house for our Christmas with the Rod side.  It was a lot of fun and the kiddos were a blast!

Mallory and Cousin Kim playing with Athena the dog:

 

These two would not take a decent pic together for anything!

Opening some presents:

With Papa Vasut:

Family pics:

   With Pappa and DeDe:

Then it was on to my parents’ house:

It’s hard to get a pic of all seven of them:

Will and Luke in their adorable bow ties:

Our usual chaos:

We got Grandpa some new Nike sunglasses:

These two beauties are growing up way too fast:

Mommy and her princess:

Playing fibber:

 

Anna and her early present from Santa – a new sweet puppy!  Her name is Charlie!

After we left MeMe and Grandpa’s we hurried home to say our good-byes to Michael and leave out Santa’s goodies: