Christmas Day 2014

We always spend Christmas Day afternoon/evening with Adam's side. This year, his brother Matt and his family were in town for Thanksgiving, but not Christmas, so on Thanksgiving we took a few family photos. Here are 5 of the 14 cousins (+ one on the way, so soon to be 15!).

And all of us. We tried to recreate a pose from a couple Christmases ago and I think we succeeded in placing everyone in the right spot.

Now on to the "real" Christmas Day. After naps, we headed over to Adam's parents for dinner and gifts. Here's the kids table in the kitchen. Notice how not a single kid is looking where they're supposed to. What is wrong with them.

The adult + Ren table. Ren appreciated all of the holiday food. He loved eating sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, turkey, chicken. Mm mm.

Time for presents. Cousin Madeline was able to come this year again, and it was so great to see her.

Uncle Matt had sent Sutton a gift card and holy cow, was this boy excited. It may have been his first gift card and he was just bursting with anticipation of what he could buy with it. The sky was the limit in his mind. We ended up taking him to Target one day and he picked out a Power Rangers race car/robot transformer thing.

Ren's first Christmas was so different from Sutton's. With Sutton, I took 50 million pictures of him with every gift and was focused on him the entire time. Ren was just crawling around on the floor...content but not the center of attention all the time. Second kid problems.

We sure have some pretty nieces!

Sutton gave Grandma a book with a bunch of photos of them in it.

Ren got a dog that barks and walks. He wasn't too sure what to think about it.

Mostly he was more interested in Grandma's snowmen.

Okay, so I guess I still took 50 million photos of Ren. :)

                         

                       

Aubrynn broke out her guitar to sing us a song she'd been practicing.

Breegan dove right into some stickers she'd gotten.

Adam's dad always thought it would've been cool to be a forest ranger. So Adam screen printed up shirts for everyone that said Dreher National Forest on the front and Ranger Ed on the back. Ren even got a onesie.



Aubrynn loves her little cousin Ren. The feeling is mutual. Though he used to be a little easier for her to hold...

I needed a quick family photo of us, so we snapped one really quick before we left.



Aubrynn had gotten a Kindle Fire for Christmas, so she was showing Sutton the ins and outs.

                      

When we got home and everyone was in bed, I took a couple photos of our tree.

And experimented with some heart-shaped bokeh. I may need more practice with this, but it turned out fun.

And that was our Christmas for 2014!