2011 Christmas was a good one for us. We celebrated with all of our traditional stuff: going to see lights (this year we went with our friends, Heidi and Noah, to a house where they open up their front and back yard for people to see the displays...very fun and entertaining!), making Christmas cookies and delivering them to our neighbors, reading The Night Before Christmas and the story of Jesus birth in the bible before the boys go to bed on Christmas Eve, cookies for Santa, and of course the Perkins coffee cake (also known as floor cake b/c one year John's mom dropped it on the the floor and they still ate it) along with breakfast casserole for Christmas morning breakfast.
The boys had a blast, and Santa got Eli's letters that he wrote and sent in the mail. Eli wrote three letters to Santa telling him what gifts to bring to our house. He wrote one for himself, one for Jed, and one for Max. I love that he thought of his brothers when it came to the Santa letters.
This year we went up to Dallas to see family after having Christmas at our house. We left Christmas afternoon, which was the way to do it because we had no traffic. The boys were great travelers...Max slept most of the way there, and on the way home, he slept the whole way home! It made for a stress-free trip.
I am thankful for my little family this Christmas, especially our newest addition. It's weird to think that last year we had no clue we'd have a baby for this Christmas!
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