Family Christmas x 4

We are so blessed to be able to have all of our family nearby!  We had 4 different Christmas celebrations (not counting our own on Christmas morning) within 4 days.  We (as always) were completely blessed with everything given to us and just to be able to spend time with all of our family!

Our first celebration was with Paul's dad and Janice, otherwise known as PaPaw and Janny!  Santa comes to visit the family every year at PaPaw's and Janny's house, so it's always a fun time!

They were good girls this year!  ;)

Daddy and Mommy were on the nice list too!

Fun times with Santa!

On Monday night, we had Christmas with Paul's mom and Carl, otherwise known as Mimi and Papa! Mimi brought tons of yummy food and we had fun eating, opening gifts, and spending time together!

Mimi read the kids "The Night Before Christmas!"

Yep, you read that one right!  Mimi and Papa are so generously sending us to Disney!  We're so excited!  :)

Christmas Eve was pretty laid back.  We spent the morning at home and then went to my parent's house right before heading to the Christmas Eve service.  Gracie Claire said one of the best things ever right before we left for church.  She said, "I'm so excited for tonight for two reasons: 1) My favorite Christmas tradition is the candlelight service.  I love it! 2) There are 23 hours of commercial-free Christmas music on KLTY!" We cracked up!

Our candlelight service was, as always, a great time of celebrating the true meaning of Christmas!  I love that our girls love it!

After church, we headed to Paul's granny's house for our annual Christmas get together!  The family is growing and it's always fun to watch the little ones and Granny open their gifts!

There were 5 of the family that weren't even there, so this isn't even everyone! :)

We spent Christmas morning at home with just the 5 of us.  It was awesome and precious time that I love!  I'll be posting about that later!

After Christmas morning, we headed over to my parent's, otherwise known as BigPa and Gigi!  Caleb, Sandra, Sam, and Cassidy were already there and Gracie and Nkere made it back from his mom's just in time to have all of us together!  We had a great time eating, opening gifts, and laughing together!  Gracie Claire, Sam, and Syd all read a little bit of the Christmas story from the Bible and Molly and Cass prayed.  It was so sweet!

 Sweet Cousins

 So blessed!

BigPa and Gigi with their little ladies!

Even though it was SO busy, we had a blast spending time with each part of our family!  We are blessed beyond words and couldn't ask for more!  It was awesome!  I'm so, so thankful!