Christmas Round-up

We had a really great Christmas.  I truly love the Christmas season and all that goes along with it.  We started our Christmas celebrations at my Aunt Joy's house on December 15th for the Sass/Davis Christmas. Growing up, after we "found out" about Santa we would always spend Christmas Eve with Joy and her family, rotating houses.  It was always such a great evening.  Now that we have our own family we no longer get together on Christmas Eve but we still try to get together.

 The Sass/Foels Families  (not sure what Jackson is doing here)  And of course, Tristan in his usual pose.

The Davis Families.  So good to see everyone and the littles played together so well.

Next up was celebrating with Karsten's family on Sunday December 23rd.  Shirley and Christa were there as well as Byron and Sharon.  Another great evening with family.  The food is always DE-licious as Shirley and Sharon are both fabulous cooks.

The boys in front of Grandma Shirley's tree.

And finally, Christmas Eve was at our house with my family.  We played, ate, visited, went to church, ate more and opened presents.  Since I had to work Christmas Day we were hoping Santa Claus would come while we were at church.  Surprise, surprise, he did!  It was a late night and boy was I tired the next day but it was all worth it.

 Our pathetic little tree.  We usually get a big real one but with everything we had going on this year I decided just to borrow this little one from my mom.  I didn't want to risk a house showing with the mess a real tree promises.  The boys didn't mind.  In fact, I think they may have liked it better because they could reach the entire tree instead of half.  

Santa Claus came!  These boys must have been pretty good too!

Another Christmas come and gone.  This year was very bittersweet.  It is the last year we will be in this house for Christmas.  So many memories are here but we are also very much looking forward to new memories out at the farmhouse.