Cousin Gift Exchange

The day after Christmas we got together for all the cousins to exchange their gifts!

Christmas Day

We spent Christmas being with family and had a fun day sharing time between Cox's and Demartini's.


Ava started out the morning asleep on my shoulder for a few before she woke up and saw that there were gifts to open.







Crew taking it easy after breakfast

Katherine and Kent

In the afternoon my dad went to use the restroom and when he lifted up the lid he was surprised to find that Ava had put her doll face up floating in the toilet and then put the lid down. Clearly it was not her favorite gift from Santa!

Big Wil looks pretty good in a pink santa hat, don't you think?

Trying to get the kids for a picutre in their Christmas outfits was nearly impossible. Ava kept wanting to sit on the boys instead of by them!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we had dinner with my family and then went next door to Demar's to play games for a bit and then back to my parents to play games with the cousins and sleepover at grandma and grandpa's house!

Griffin and Crew with cousin Bree

The traditional homemade chicken noodle soup for Christmas Eve dinner, which is one of my favorites!

Ava fell asleep in her chair eating dinner. She was wiped out!

Playing the candy bar game!

The kids love to get treasures from out of the fish pond!

One tradition our family has always done is have matching Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve!

Papa reading a Christmas story to the kids before time to head home to bed!

Ava sharing a bowl of papa's popcorn with dad before bedtime!

Christmas Eve Bowling

Christmas Eve afternoon we went bowling before the festivities began for the evening!