Merry Christmas

We had a very blessed Christmas day, celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior. For Christmas Eve we went to see Matt's family and I only took 2 pictures. Fulton was in full blown wild mode and we were chasing him the whole time, trying to prevent him from breaking Nanny's antique treasures. 

Christmas morning we woke up and starting making a birthday cake for Jesus. I want this to be a tradition that we do and try to keep the focus on the birth of Jesus. My little helper enjoyed watching the cake mix, but he kept trying to add his own ingredients, like the measuring cups. We played for a while, put the cake in the oven and put this little guy down for a nap.

He woke up and thought it would be a perfect fit to come out in his birthday suit, since we had been talking about birthdays. I love these rolls. Why can't mine be that cute?

 The cake is ready and iced. Strawberry of course.

Aunt Keri and Uncle Pete arrived and we started getting everything ready for our spread of breakfast foods.

Pops and KK came too. We were thankful to have Christmas at our house this year. Made things a lot easier and we enjoyed having everyone over.

So we decided to have a brunch instead of the traditional lunch foods. We had pancakes, sausage, hashbrowns, breakfast casserole, sausage balls, scrambled eggs, grits, and fruit. Oh my stars. We were stuffed.

Then it was time to open gifts. Thankfully Fulton hasn't messed with the tree or presents at all this year, but boy was he ready when it was time to start opening.

 KK and Pops got Fulton this cool car ramp. He loves it. He is all into cars and trains right now. He also got a really cute outfit for next Fall.

 Aunt Keri and Uncle Pete got him some cool puzzles. He was excited! These will be fun to play with.

Lots of present opening. We tried to keep it simple for each other and for Fulton, but some family members, or all family members, went to the extreme with Fulton, showering him with all kinds of fun stuff.

Fulton absolutely loved opening gifts and helping others open gifts. I don't know that everyone really got to open their own gifts because F kept ripping the paper off for them. Sweet helper.

 Out little family.

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Matt and I were doing 4 things for each other and the one "want" that he had on his list was for his degrees to be framed. Well, here they are. All framed and ready to be hung in his office.

Aunt Keri and Uncle Pete were probably ready to go home by the end of the gift wrapping because Fulton was all up in their business while they were trying to open gifts. They also got Fulton a cool wooden train that he has enjoyed putting together and taking apart and some really cute clothes.

 Obviously we were boring Pops because he fell asleep towards the end. I guess we wore him out.

And we ended with this cool table and chairs from KK and Pops. This will be fun to use when I homeschool Fulton... ha. Blessed day!