Christmas Fun

Thanks to both of our families for helping us to have such a wonderful Christmas! Since I have not had a chance until today to blog about Christmas, I am going to just make one huge posting.



Christmas Eve was spent with Mike's family. A great big thank you to his sister Shannon for hosting the wonderful event. We had a great meal, lots of fun, and a wonderful time with family. Riley had a great time playing with everyone and before we even left the subdivision, asked if she could go back. Riley is very thankful to everyone for all the fabulous gifts. Mommy has a job now of finding homes for all of them. She is already putting them to good use. What a wonderful night we all had!!



Christmas morning we had more fun opening all of the gifts from Santa. When Riley woke up, Mike told her to go downstairs and see if Santa had come. She never came back up and we heard ripping paper coming from downstairs. When I got there, she had already begun opening the presents!! I guess she is not very patient...I wonder where she gets that from? Riley had so much fun opening all of her presents and kept going back and forth between her stocking and her gifts. After presents, we had breakfast and then went to church. Riley was a very good girl at church and during mass there was even a visit from Santa Claus! After church, Mike had the job of putting together Riley's kitchen and Riley was trying her best to help. It was a great family Christmas morning.




The rest of Christmas day was spent with Amy's family. My sister Kris and family were in from New Jersey. We were very excited to have them with us since they have not been back for a Christmas Day since moving 6 years ago. Riley had so much fun playing with her cousin's, Kelsey and Nick. She was so excited to see them. It was great to have the whole family together. We all had a great time opening presents (thanks again for your generosity), sharing a wonderful meal (too much actually) and just having time to be together. After dinner, Riley made monkey bread with Kelsey and the fun continued. The day was a wonderful ending to a fabulous Christmas Holiday!!!!

We hope that everyone had as great a Christmas as we did. Thank you to everyone for all of the presents, food, and great times. I have a few videos as well that I will try to add soon. I may need to get some help figuring out how to post them.