Family Circus (I mean Christmas) my side of the Family

Many of you that know me know that I'm kind of a goofball...no comments on that one please. So you can only imagine what happens when 60 or so people get together to celebrate a holiday on my side of the family. This not only was awesome as normal but even better that finally scheduling allowed for Emma and Megan to enjoy the likes of "my clan". They got to meet most of the cousins that they'd never met before and play with some familiar faces like Emily, Bryson and Zoe. I think they may have been overwhelmed though a bit at first - Patricks family is rather small and they have only a few cousins their age (5 I do believe to be exact) and their mom is an only child so when they walked into a firestorm of 60 people and about 30 small children they were quiet for awhile but it wasn't long until they were all running around outside playing and laughing just like I used to do at this same house not that long ago. Its so touching to see the generations change and now the kids that I played with as a child now have children that are playing with my own. Kinda warms the heart. Well more than kinda.... :) Plus to see Patrick be Santa's "helper" for the 2nd year was quite entertaining also. Thanks honey for being a good sport and bringing back YET ANOTHER tradition from my childhood.



When I was a little kid on holidays I'd always run to my mom and say "can I stay the night at Katies or can I stay the night at Crystals or at Bridgettes", now I can experience that myself. For the 2nd holiday now we have had Bryson running to us and saying "can the girls stay the night with us"? So this time we made it happen Bryson and Emily got to come home with us and the girls. Again another recycle of my own generation....so we packed them in the car and headed to Mt Juliet. We changed them into clothes we had and washed everything they had on and settled into playing at the Severs' house and watching G Force while on air mattresses in the living room eating popcorn for dinner. Needless to say my fave moment of the night was when I was getting the living room ready for movie watching I could hear from the girls bedroom all 4 children singing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and I believe my favorite Christmas memory was made thus far this year. Call it emotional from being pregnant or nostalgia whatever...it was an awesome moment and I thank God for it. Well right then I did later when I was trying to sleep and got woke up that might have been an emotional pregnancy moment...big smiles followed by an evil laugh.



Thats it for now - sure more posts to come with so many fun things around the holidays....we are very lucky to have the girls this year for Christmas morning...this is my first year having kids on Christmas morning....Thank you Lord for the blessings in my life.