Christmas x 3

Well, Timmy and I have officially completed our first Christmas season together and man, the blessings just kept pouring in!!! Christmas is my favorite holiday, so I loved the idea of celebrating it over and over and over! Our first Christmas celebration was with my parents in Alabama. I always love going down to see them, but I've especially missed sharing this time with them. so I was itching for a ride deeper into the south. Since I wasn't down there all December I couldn't make my usual Christmas cookies... Well, that's what they thought, but I spent part of the night beforehand baking and decorating sugar cookies to surprise them with!

They love them!

We had a great time playing Xbox Connect Just Dance, which coincidentally also led me to the realization AGAIN that there was a reason I was never in dance class... We also went to the Christmas light show, put on by Nasa. All of the Space Engineers design Christmas light displays, its pretty incredible the things they come up with!

They were beautiful!!!

Then we had our traditional Christmas, with the huge dinner, reading of the Christmas story, singing Silent Night, and finally opening presents!!! We received a lot of wonderful things and were very excited to start using them all!!! Christmas #1 was quite a success!!!

Then Timmy and I had a traditional breakfast for dinner on Christmas Eve! YUM!

Timmy and I celebrated our own Christmas together on Christmas morning. We got up early, opened presents, and checked our stockings for "Santa". We had to be creative about each others gifts, because we couldn't get something on each others list. Those lists had gone out to about 3 different families and we didn't want to get duplicates. It was fun to try to figure out extra things that we wanted, we definitely had to be inventive and creative (there might have ended up being duplicates...)!

I'm thinking we did a pretty good job!!!

Then Timmy's family came up to Greenville to celebrate Christmas with us and Joanna. We went to church and then out to eat, which was quite an entertaining ordeal! We ended up at a Hibachi buffet, which was a nice change of pace! Unfortunately after that, Timmy had to head off to work while the rest of us headed to Joanna's to play games and watch Christmas movies. Christmas #2 was a wonderful change of pace and a great official first Christmas together!

Lastly, we headed to Columbia to have our Ward family Christmas. We had another HUGE dinner, (I'm sure between all three we gained 10 pounds!), then we opened presents. We are so blessed to be surrounded with such generous people! Between all three Christmases, we got pretty much anything we needed, wanted or could ever use! At the Ward's house we played lots of Wii, Cornhole, games, and hung out with Columbia friends. Christmas #3 = two thumbs way, way up!!

We had a ton of fun and we are sad to see the Christmas season pass by so quickly! However, one thing is for sure, we are blessed with WONDERFUL families and friends!