Our 2011 Christmas

Hello everyone!! It seems like it's been FOREVER since I blogged...been a busy busy girl. I feel like I have finally caught up with everything at home and work that I can now sit down and blog about our Christmas.

We started decorating for Christmas on Thanksgiving weekend. Tate put up the tree and I decorated (Tate put the star on top). Mya really wanted to help Daddy put up the tree...it was so precious :)

I wish I had more items to decorate for the Holiday in our home. I like to go shopping for these items after Christmas because everything is usually 50% off. I did make due with what we had, but I most definitely went the day after Christmas this year and got some good stuff!!

We had many great Christmas celebrations with both of our families. We are very blessed to have so many loves ones to spend this joyous holiday with.

We started our Christmas celebration a week early by going to my parents. Since Tate and my family live 4.5 hours apart, my mom was willing to have our Christmas celebration the weekend before Christmas so that we wouldn't have to travel in one weekend to both places. We decided we will be switching off each year to each others family.

We had a great time @ my parents. My grandparents came over also. We had a very yummy brunch and opened gifts.

After having a great time with my family, we then headed over to our Godchild's home to spend time with her and her super cool parents :) Rylee is getting so big and we love seeing her. She loved her Christmas presents...especially the books!! (PS...go check out my Bestie's blog and follow...she just started)

We had all of Tate's family Christmas celebrations in one day...Christmas Eve. We first headed over to his Uncle's place around 3 to celebrate with his Dads side of the family. We had a very big early dinner and lots of yummy treats!!

After spending the afternoon with Tate's Dad side of the family, we then headed over to his Grandma's to spend Christmas with his Mom's side of the family. It was a really good time especially since we got to see Tate's aunt, Anita. She was diasnosed with cancer in August and the prognosis is not good. She was not able to make it to our wedding so we brought all our wedding photos and some raw footage of our ceremony for her to see. She loved seeing it. We loved seeing her and spending this holiday with her.

After filling our stomachs again and having lots of holiday cheer, we headed back to Tate's Mom's and opened gits with her and his brothers. I love love love watcing people open gifts that we gave to them, especially when it was something that they really wanted!! The way their eye light up, brings joy to me.

I hope you all had a great Christmas and was able to spend it with loved ones!! We still have one more Christmas celebration. My mom's side of the family is in a couple weeks. I love when the Holiday is extended :)