Christmas Celebrations 2009

On Christmas Eve B and I hung out at home all day. We watched movies and baked cookies to put out for "santa" that night... we don't really "do santa" at our house, B knows it is just a guy dressed up, but it is still fun to pretend :)

B had a puppet show w/ the pot holders-- Mr and Mrs Claus of course :)

Once Ryan got home we got ready and went to my parents house for our Christmas Eve celebration w/ my mom's dad's side of the family.
Our family in front of my mom's tree <3
my brother and I

my little cousins Kylee and Ashlyn w/ B-- B and Ashlyn are 3 mo. apart and they have a blast playing together!

B got a big remote control monster truck and a tonka truck w/ a trailer and boat from my Papaw Ed and Granny Sue. My Uncle Griffin got him a remote control helicopter and airplane. He loves them all! Such a boy :) Although, his daddy is pretty fond of that remote control helicopter too! haha!

my brother always gets ahold of my camera and takes pictures of himself... I had about 20 of these on here of him and B and about 20 more of my brother himself! these were their mean faces I guess??

After our Christmas Eve there we came home and opened our gifts from each other. We only got B a few small things b/c he got his big gift (his wii) for his birthday since Ryan couldn't wait to give it to him! We got him the Transformer Movie, Wii Monster Trucks game, a Transformer helmet thingy (annoying toy!), and the game Operation... Let me tell you that game is a lot harder these days I think! haha

such a sweetie!

Ryan and B got me a new Bible (just what I asked for!). I love it!!

B and I got Ryan a new pair of cowboy boots (and he looks SO hot in them!) ;) lol

B w/ a few things out of his stocking-- yes those are the dust mop slippers from Wal-Mart, lol. Every since they got them at walmart Brycen has BEGGED for them. He was so excited to find a pair in his stocking, it was so funny!

B w/ the cookies he put out for Santa...

First thing Christmas morning... he was so tired and not ready to wake up! Looking at the empty plate :)

finding his gift from Santa-- a new bb gun!

it was raining out so his super cool Daddy let him shoot it out the back door :)


We headed over to my parents in our pj's (like always) to do have breakfast and do gifts with them (Courtney, I made your baked oatmeal!).

This boy thinks he can never have too many tools! He got these new tools, Handy Manny Work Bench, a big blow up jump house for summer, new fuzzy pj's, 2 reallly nice books, and some other stuff from my parents. My brother got him Mario Kart for the wii (fun game btw!).

so excited!

Ryan- sooooo surprised!

He couldn't figure out why he got a blue ray from my parents when we don't have a HD tv and then he couldn't figure out why B and I got him a tv stand? It all came together when my parents brought out the last gift- They did our big gift together this year ( but I was in on the surprise) and got him a new 60 inch tv! I don't think ANYONE needs a tv that big- but my hubby sure was happy!

We came home a little later after visiting and B playing w/ his toys and him and my dad got it all set up. We rested for a few hours and then we went back to my parents for supper w/ my dad's mom's side of the family. B got a new book, a John Deere water shooter man (that's what he says he is anyway?) and a John Deere calander.

We had such a great Christmas- not because of the gifts we got, but because of the extra time we got to spend w/ family and celebrating Jesus' birthday! I hope you all had a great Christmas too!