Tuesday Talk: Christmas Recap {2015}

Anyone else feeling the craziness that is the holiday season? Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, my birthday and now we are just 2 days away from welcoming 2016?! This week of the year is always so bizarre for me. Before I know it the holidays are over, I'm a year older and its a brand new year *sigh*.
So, before it all blurs I thought I would take today to do a little Christmas recap post and fill you in on all the random details that made our Christmas great.

We spent Christmas Eve lying around the house doing a whole lot of nothing. I think the girls and I watched White Christmas and The Santa Claus putting our Christmas movie watching at an all time high this year.

Later that evening we headed to church for a Christmas Eve service followed by a Mexican fiesta at Russ' parents to celebrate Christmas with them. I really should have made a Feliz Navidad joke that night.

We arrived home pretty late, sat out cookies for Santa and put the girls to bed. After that I made my typical late night batch of cinnamon rolls and played Santa. It's a tough job but someone has to do it.

The next morning the girls woke up about 7:30 (love those kids) and started playing with their toys they got the night before, they didn't even ask to open presents (really love those kids). 

We had our traditional Christmas breakfast, this years cinnamon rolls were especially tasty. 

Snapped a family photo.

And then they opened presents.
Speaking of presents Marissa gave me this. Note in the to she put Beth instead of Mom.

This is the very first present she has ever bought for me (with her own money). She remembered the fuzzy socks I was swooning over at Academy. Such a sweet little girl. She bought Russ & Emily presents this year too.
Next up was cousin time at my parents house.

More presents.

And playing outside, because it was like 60 degrees out. 

It was another great Christmas at the Newman house. It seems like every year we are able to do a little more with the girls making each season more magical than the years before. I couldn't ask for anything more than that.

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Christmas Recap 2014

Happy Monday!

I hope this week after Christmas Monday finds you well. We have been in a sort of time warp for a over a week now. Dad was home, school was out and if you asked me what day it was I had to check my phone before answering. It was wonderful. I really hate sending the hubby back to work after having him home for 9 day but at least this week will be a short one.

I thought it would be nice to give a little holiday recap on the blog today.

Let's start with Christmas eve.

Christmas eve was celebrated with Russ' parents. We met up at their house for dinner, then went to Christmas eve service. 

I love Christmas eve service.

This picture is a bit dark, but apparently I missed the wear red and black preferably plaid memo. 

After service we met Russ' parents at our house for cookies and presents. First Christmas presents of the year meant the girls were just a little bit wound up and overly excited. They practically tackled their grandparents. Games, cookies, talk of Santa and we all ended up staying up to late. 

The next day we woke up and I put our traditional breakfast right in the oven. We always make cinnamon rolls of some kind. This year the girls chose orange rolls.



. After breakfast and what felt like FOREVER (to them), we finally let them open up their gifts



"Bob" had the idea to leave them elf dolls.



And hearing this girl scream and jump around the house yelling "I got my Christmas wish" when she opened her panda brought tears to my eyes. 

Marissa brought out her homemade presents that she made in secret and wrapped in shoe boxes. What a huge heart that lovely young woman has. She made me a pot holder, Russ an ornament and gave Emily a pouch full of her change she collects. 

Next up was lunch and more presents with my parents. 

It was a great Christmas with so many reminders of how exceedingly and abundantly blessed we are.

How was your Christmas?