Christmas!

Every year we have Christmas at my parent's house, which used to be my grandparent's house. It starts on Christmas Eve with a HUGE family gathering of all the extended family. It's a crazy day of chaos but I look forward to it every year. Then my siblings and their kids stay the night and wake up to see that Santa visited on Christmas morning then we have a huge breakfast. I have a million pictures so I'll get to those....

The happy family...well, three of us anyway.

The happy couple.

One of many group photos: my mom, sister-in-law Nicole, Aunt Nita, me, cousin Hilari.

You know you want to eat this. This technically wasn't made on Christmas but all of the grandkids made it one Sunday for Christmas. I wouldn't eat a thing off of that after all of those grubby paws touched it!

This isn't a full shot of Santa Land but it will do. Caleb loves playing in Santa Land. My dad has a train that drives around the track that hangs from the ceiling in there. Pretty cool for the kiddos.

Here are some of the tasty munchies. Mmmm...getting hungry just looking at them! We all fill up on the snacks before we even get to the big lunch!

The sweets table. See Caleb over there munching on some chex mix?

What pretzel? I didn't see a pretzel.

Prayer time before lunch. I was praying...with my eyes open...holding the camera.

Who needs turkey, dressing, and green bean cassarole when you have bologna and mac-e-cheese?

A bunch of the kids playing in the playroom.

We played a lot of "Apples to Apples". Fun game!

Caleb loved his Toy Story dumptruck with Buzz, Woody, and Lotso.

My neice Hailey was just a little excited!

Caleb checking out his pillow pet.

Ethan is a little obsessed with his. He still sleeps with it every night, it goes to and from the couch when he's on it, it goes in the car even on short trips. And it's not small!

My neice Caitlin...a little tired?

They were dropping like flies by the end of the night.

But they were up again for more food! *Note my dad passed out in his chair. Poor guy.

"Is this mine?" I heard that a lot!

Ethan sprinkled "reindeer food" that he made at school in my parent's front yard. It's made out of oats and glitter. Yummy.

I love this picture. Ethan and his buddy/cousin Blaine laying on their pillow pets watching TV.

Checking to see that Santa ate his chocolate milk and cookies!

Presents from Santa and us.

The baseball helmet was from us. Caleb was so excited about those little dollar store wash cloths that are tiny squares till you add water to them. It's the little things. ;-)

Baseball bases!

Checking out the loot in the stockings.

Making the famous Christmas breakfast.

Caleb needed "tubby toast". (Anyone still watch Teletubbies?)

Ethan needed his morning coffee after waiting all night for Santa.

My nephew Blaine wasn't happy to be awake in the daylight.

Ethan playing his new game while driving Caleb's rocket.