I wrote quite a bit about the lead up to Christmas ’13, but one thing I didn’t post was that we did a bit a of traveling for the holiday. [No sense advertising our house was empty for a few days, so I keep that info until I get back.] With a family all over, we had to make time for different celebrations.
We started with Christmas Eve at our house. As a kid, Christmas Eve was spent at Grandma’s house. The last two years we did that, but this year we had to switch things up.
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Gifts!!
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I love books! Good thing Papa’s an author.
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More to unwrap? Okay, if I must.
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I don’t think Papa knows how to open gifts.
The next morning – we had to leave at 8:00 am to get a flight to visit my parents. She looked so cute in her Christmas Dress, tights and black shoes – if I do say so myself.
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Who says airplane seats have no room? I’ve got tons of room.
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Me and Grandma.
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Showing off my Christmas outfit.
But with travel, dinner, family, we opened gifts with my parents the next day.
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Opening gifts is tough work, but I’ll take the job.
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I can’t wait to see what Grandma and Grandpa got me.
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See Grandma, I told you it was hard to open.
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My own iPad? You shouldn’t have.
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Daddy said he wanted some pictures.
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What’s Papa doing over there?
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Yup, Papa’s being silly.
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Just us girls laughing.
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Christmas is fun at Grandma and Grandpa’s.
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Getting ready to go home.
We stayed a few days, but due to travel, Christmas stretched a few extra days. We still needed to take ‘lil q to see her other grandparents – oh and we needed to let ‘lil q open her gifts from Santa and her many friends.
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Who has time to be careful? Just rip it open and see what I got!
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I love Hello Kitty, but I need to see what’s inside.
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See my tree? I decorated it myself.
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How Papa – I mean the Grinch stole Christmas!
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I love new books!
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Mark and Stuby got me this one. They’re the best!
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Aunt Verna and Uncle Bob got me this awesome jewelry box – it even has my name on it. Now Papa and Daddy need to buy me jewelry.
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Finger Puppets from Lynn! These are cool.
Then it was off to Grandma and Grandpa’s. Her ‘other’ Christmas dress was pretty cute too.
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Check out the tree and my other Christmas Dress.
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Me and Grandma.
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Me and Daddy before I open my gifts –
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Hands off Papa. Grandma gave this to me.
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I hope this counts as my nap.
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Maybe a little nap in the sleeping blanket Grandma got me.
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This one’s a keeper, Papa.
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I love it here at grandma’s.