I know it has been a while since I have written. I wanted to catch you up on our holidays. Chrisily had a wonderful first Christmas (I think we enjoyed it as much, if not more than she did)! We were lucky enough to have both mine and Jacob's parents here to help us celebrate. Sadly, Jacob's brothers and their wives were not able to come. Jacob and I have talked about our Christmas traditions many times and we have also started talking about the family traditions we want to have for our family. We feel it is important for our family to be home on Christmas. That means we'll be traveling either before or after Christmas to see the Townsends. This was our first year at home as a family of three! We kicked off the festivities with Christmas Eve church service and then headed to my Grandma's to eat barbecue and open presents (my family has done this forever). Aunt Carol and her family nor Aunt Cathy could make it that night so it was my family and grandma. That evening we headed home to get in bed so Santa could come! When we woke up the next morning we started up the video camera and went to say Good Morning and Merry Christmas to our precious girl. She was all smiles- as always! We couldn't want to go see what Santa had brought her. She got a few outfits, bibs, and a couple of books. Then we opened presents from each other. Chrisily got an activity table and a shapes/numbers cookie jar that sings! She enjoyed eating the paper as much as seeing the gifts. After we opened our presents, my family came over. We exchanged our gifts to each other then it was time to clean up and head over to mom and dad's for the annual Barbee Christmas Morning Brunch that dad cooks for our family and friends. We spent most of the afternoon over there before heading home to get Chrisily settled into bed. Jacob headed to the airport to pick up his parents! We were so excited that they were joining us for Christmas this year. We visited with them that night but they had to wait to see Chrisily until the morning- KK was about to die!! :-) Once Chrisily woke up the next morning we exchanged gifts with Jacob's parents. We had a pretty lazy day around the house just hanging out so KK and Gramps could play with Chrisily. Aunt Carol and her family arrived Monday evening so we headed over to Grandma's on Tuesday evening to do Christmas with them. We ate barbecue until we could barely move and visited for a while before heading home. The rest of the week was spent hanging out with Jacob's folks, seeing my family, and enjoying our vacation time together. We finished up our holiday celebration on Friday with Mom's family. We all went to Casey and Stephen's house for our annual White Elephant gift exchange. By the weekend we were tired and ready for a few days of rest- but it was New Years! We decided to keep it low key and hang out at home with our sweet girl for New Year's Eve.
I spent the evening reflecting on what a fabulous year 2011 had been. I knew on New Year's 2010 that we were going to have a good year, but I had no way of knowing just how much my life would change forever. I will always have fond memories of 2011 and I look forward to making many more special memories in 2012. Happy New Year my friends.
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