Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Eve this year was quite different from ones in the past. We found out Wednesday morning that my grandmother was admitted to the hospital for dehydration from the stomach bug that seems to be going around, so our annual gift opening and dinner at her house just wasn't the same without her there. We did decide to go ahead and open gifts since it's so hard to get everyone together and also since the gifts were anxiously awaiting opening by three little kids! Here are a couple of our pictures from Christmas Eve at Grandma Page's house.

Here is Uncle Mark with Maddie, Dillon, and Savannah. He had to leave shortly after dinner to go stay with Grandma at the hospital.

One of my favorite gifts was matching aprons!! Are we cute or what? I can't wait to get started cooking for Dave's family who will arrive today with my helper by my side.

Savannah in her "fur" vest putting baby to bed in her new doll bed.

Then we were off to mom's for the night and to await the delicious Christmas morning breakfast. We opened gifts at mom's Christmas morning and then packed up our car and headed back to Charlotte to do our own Christmas. Plus, Santa gifts were waiting!!

Here is Savannah playing with the houses at mom's

Maddie is having a blast on top of the car at Granny's house!

We finally arrived home and after a good nap we let Savannah open Santa presents. Here she is wearing her new coat and carrying her ladybug umbrella. She played with those two things all night; who would have thought she would like them more than some toys from Santa! You can see part of her loot in the background. Boy did our little girl get WAY TOO much stuff! I have to say that seeing her eyes light up was so worth all of the effort put into Christmas this year.

Now we await the arrival of Dave's family to open yet more presents! This has been an awesome week and I am so thankful that we have family close enough to celebrate with everyone for the holiday.

I hope each of you had a wonderful Christmas with your family too! Merry Christmas!!!