Continuing Christmas... STILL!!

Christmas, late afternoon, we headed over to Matt’s parents house for our Christmas celebration there.  We wanted to make it short and sweet… we just weren’t feeling all that well.

We pulled into the drive and could just smell goodness!!  Matt’s mom puts on a FEAST for us.  The food is always great, table is set and decorated with a ridiculous amount of place settings to fit us all around.  We just keep getting cozier!  The Christmas tree sat in the corner with loads of presents stuffed underneath it.

Once we all showed up Grandma & Grandpa gathered all the grandkids around them and the tree to read them the real Christmas story. 

So sweet, Makenzie and Joshua got nice and comfy on the chair together.

Yes, that's Makenzie to the right totally comfy on the chair!
(And yes, partner in crime Joshua aka Fa-fa is next to her!)

Then things got a little crazy.  Wrapping paper started flying!  And things got noisy!!!  LOUD!  (What else do you expect with 7 Grandkids?)

Makenzie opening one of her many puzzles!

The grandkids checking out Grandma's annual family calendar!

Someone's excited about his fire truck!!

Two cuties in plaid!  Zman just got his first automobile :0)

Thankful picture sign we made.

Makenzie helping Pops open one of the gifts she made him.

Welcome to Pop's cottage with Madison's hand prints as deer
and Makenzie's hand prints as a pine tree!

Little project that Makenzie headed up!  She picked out a wooden heart
from Hobby Lobby, said she wanted to make it for Pops.  She paints it
then said she wanted deer on there.  So we used her finger prints to make
two deer.  "One is me and one is Pops!"  Too cute.

Uncle Dave is ready to eat!!! He's almost got the whole turkey in front of him!!  Happy man!

After we did gifts we moved on to the dinner and left soon afterwards...  Matt and I were done.  We did good the first half but after awhile our nasty sore throats came back.  The ride home was silent!  Haha.  We got home and ALL went to bed :-) 

I need to get better at taking pictures at the gifts we get!!  Makenzie got… puzzle cube, puzzle box w/ 4 different puzzles (THAT SHE PLAYS WITH ALLLLLLLL THE TIME!), magnetic dress up doll, Dr Seuss book.  Most of Makenzie’s toys that she got for Christmas were Melissa & Doug toys… LOVE LOVE LOVE them!

Madison got… sippy cups, plates, spoons, touch & feel book, ball, cozy outfit.

Thankfully with how sick the three of us got, Madison never got the nasty-ness of it.  There were a few days where she had mild symptoms similar to what we had, but she never got the fever, or was never down and out!!  I tell ya I swear by breast feeding!!  I bet if I wasn’t nursing her and she wasn’t getting the antibodies from me she would have gotten it.  That really would have been the icing on the cake.  We also skipped another Christmas party and church that weekend so we kept all our germs to ourselves and didn’t catch any others.  Hate it when sickness is in the house with a baby.