Our Christmas 2008!

On Sunday evening the 21st, we had our family Christmas. We always have it before we head to Bama... 1. It gives us, our little family a chance to open our presents together at our house with our tree. 2. We would have to have a u-haul, to carry all of our presents plus everyone else's to Bama. And 3. We open them a few days before we leave, so Jolee can have a chance to play with new toys and I have a chance to wash new clothes that we received, so we can pack em and wear em in Bama!

It is our tradition, that we have a nice sit down dinner on our china with candle light and just enjoy each other. Tt is something different and special. Well this year, we changed the menu a bit. You see, we had gone out for a big lunch after church that Sunday and by the time it came time to start cooking and eating none of us were hungry. So Silas came up with a good idea...we had a sit down dessert instead. We had brownie with vanilla ice-cream, chocolate syrup, marshmallows, cool whip and some even had bananas on them too. It was every kids or Silas's dream!

We had a great evening! This is Jolee opening her stocking!

Yes, we bought Sophie some new toys too!

Jolee was so into it this year. She opened every present by herself and did it piece by piece. After she would open it, she would come hug you and say thank you, Merry Christmas Mommy! It was precious!

She got tons of stuff and loved it all!

Silas and I had a wonderful Christmas too!

He did really, really good this year for me (as always)!

Jolee and her microphones as she calls it. It really is fun, that night her and I stayed up till midnight singing and watching ourselves on TV. We were jammin to songs like "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "Row Row Row your boat" and "The wheels on the bus"!

I don't think, I did that bad shopping for him either!

It was a wonderful Christmas at our house!

I will have post after post and pictures after pictures of all the events that took place while we were in Bama for the holidays!