St. Nick Visits St. James

On the Thursday after Christmas we headed to St. James Plantation to see Grandma and Grandpa Ron. You would have thought St. Nick had visited again with all the loot! We had some great quality time playing games, cooking, disc golfing and, of course, opening the presents! Kingston continues to charm the pants off all his doting grandparents. Danny and Crew loved having Grandma, Grandpa, Kevin and Stef in the same condo to play with them. Fun was definitely had by all! So, so grateful to have some many family members to love us and our children. It's been a wonderful Christmas...all five of them! 

Meeting Kingston

Found his first present!

Love my fur nephew

Got that pose with present thing down

Heavy lot of Legos

Australia travel book for their trip. Ignore the TV in background!

Custom made clock by Ron - so talented!

Man crate time

Building his first model car

Tummy time

Happy boy

Playing so well together

Swinging with Grandma 

Disc golfing

Stef's lap is not big enough for both of them!

Kissing Grandma

Pretending to sleep with Grandpa

Danny wanted in on the couples shot

The Day After Christmas at Nana's

Monday, the day after Christmas, we headed over to Nana's for more festivities, including, you guessed it, more eating, drinking and presents! We also snuck in a beach walk and our annual photo. Once again, we were spoiled rotten and had such a blast! Oh and we finished out the night with a little dance party (see the last two pictures below). Can't wait to see Grandma and Grandpa Ron for a couple days tomorrow!

Bagels!

Building Legos with Uncle Colin 

Ali was photographer, so I was actually in a picture!

Hostesses with the Mostestesses

Pretending to be Ali and Dieter's kids

That's a lot of stockings

Matching fire truck shirts

Bust a move

He gets it from his momma...or his Nana

Christmas Evening

As if Christmas morning wasn't enough, we met Kevin and Stef Christmas evening at Papa and Lita's to be further spoiled with more good food and gifts. Such a wonderful way to close out a very blessed Christmas Day. Next up was Nana's...

Papa inadvertently not pictured, but he was there with bells and whistles on.

Christmas Morning

True to their personalities, Danny was pretty calm and even a little hesitant about first approaching their Santa spoils and Crew was pretty forward. Both gravitated to their remote control fire truck (Danny) and school bus (Crew) - the two things they told Santa they wanted. They weren't nearly as excited about all their other presents, but that's okay. I know they'll enjoy them in due time! Jimmy and I made out nicely too! Breakfast was sausage and cinnamon rolls - yum - and then Papa, Lita and Nana all stopped by for a few. Such a great Christmas morning with our boys! 

That's his new Matchbox Cars expression

Christmas Eve

I've been really trying to establish some holiday traditions with our kids and I think we have one that will stick - turkey dinner on Christmas Eve. The kids actually ate it and Jimmy and I had a fairly civilized meal as well. Bonus: the sleepiness from the turkey combats the excitement of Santa quite nicely. After gorging ourselves we took a quick golf cart ride to see Kevin and Stef and then came home to hang stockings and set out cookies and milk. Boys were in bed pretty early and then Jimmy and I got to work!

Actually prior to Christmas Eve pics, but too cute not to share...

Now, Christmas Eve...

Santa came!