Our Christmas!

We had a great Christmas spending time with all of our family. On Sunday, we went to Mom and Dad's to spend the evening with Grandma Heck (Mama Martha), Aunt Cheri and Uncle Sam. We had a good time and it is always good to see them, as we do not see them that often. There is always still a void, since Papa Bill passed. We all miss him greatly! He was such a special man!

(Mom and Dad with their proud grandma/grandpa baby boy shirts - Char and Darwin got them too, but for some reason we have no picture)

Monday, Christmas Eve, Tim and I spent most of the day hanging out at home. I didn't feel the greatest, so we just rested. Around 6:00 we headed to Tim's parents for our traditional Christmas Eve festivities. We always open gifts with them and order pizza. Grandma and Grandpa Stover had lots of surprises for baby. We also visited with Tony, April, Leighton, and Lauren and exchanged gifts. Lauren loved the gift we gave her - a pizza kit from The Land of Nod and a chef hat. She played with it for a hour or more - cutting us all a piece and taking our special orders. Baby Stover got lots of new things from all of them and Tony even picked out an outfit with sheriff's on it. It is so cute and an appropriate gift for him to get from Tony.

On Christmas morning we got up early, ok so 9:00 is not that early, and headed to Mom and Dad's for our traditional Christmas morning. As always, they got us WAY too much. Baby Stover got a ton and we were fortunate to get a lot of things from our registry that we had not yet received, such as our video baby monitors. Mom fixed our favorite breakfast - applesauce muffins and julep! We LOVE that kind of breakfast. Tim and I are definitely NOT breakfast eaters. We prefer muffins, cake, etc. for our breakfasts! Mom knows this, so she always accommodates. After all of the gift unwrapping and breakfast we hung out for a little bit before Tim and I headed back home to get ready. We always just get up and go to Mom and Dad's - in our PJ's/sweats. That is the luxury of living less than 5 minutes away from your parents. Anyway, we came home got ready and headed back to Mom and Dad's for lunch with Grandma and Grandpa. Mom fixed a delicious beef tenderloin roast with potatoes and carrots, green bean casserole, deviled eggs, rolls, etc. She also made a wonderful chocolate sheet cake, which I love! OK... I just LOVE to eat and ALWAYS have. (That was my Papa Bill's favorite thing about me - I never turn down food. If he were still here, he would crack up to see me prego! He would love to see how often I eat!) After we ate our scrumptious lunch, I went and took a nice long winter's nap on the couch, while everyone else visited. I was starting to get a crazy headache and it helped to take a little snooze!

Christmas evening we headed to Grandma and Grandpa Smith's for our traditional Christmas with them, Uncle Tim, Aunt Sharon, Laura, Hannah, Brandon, and Mom and Dad. As always, it was chaos with all of the gifts! So much so that I couldn't even begin to tell you what anybody received. I think next year we are going to have to organize it a little. It is always paper, boxes, and bows flying everywhere. Baby got lots of things there too. G and G Smith got baby several things from the registry too. They purchased his spa bathtub, lots of Colts things, and lots of other stuff. Uncle Tim, Aunt Sharon, and girls got the baby lots of things too. He got his first official Colts jersey, size 2T - not a onesie, but a real jersey. It is so cute. He also got toys, books, etc. This baby is super spoiled by all!!! Uncle Tim, Aunt Sharon, Tim, Laura, Hannah, Brandon, and Dad all had a Wii tennis tournament. The big winner was Hannah, but Tim was second place!!! Way to go Hannah!

After we left G and G's we went to spend a little time with Tim's parents. We left there and went home and crashed after a wonderful Christmas day! We enjoy spending time with all of our family and feel so lucky to have all of them in our lives! We are truly blessed!