Saturday, December 14, 2013

Our {North Carolina} Christmas

    Merry Christmas! Well, kind of. As I mentioned in the last post, we are having our Christmas early because we are going out of town and don't want to take all of our presents. 
     We were up quite a bit last night with Connor. Thankfully, he didn't wake up for the morning until 8:30. Not too bad for his first Christmas. Aaron made a comment today saying that for the next 15 years we will never be able to sleep in on Christmas again. He's right, and I'm okay with that! I love waking up early to open gifts and can't wait for Connor to play with all his new toys. 
    We didn't stay in bed for very long before we went to see what Santa brought for Connor.
Those must have been some really good cookies!
Connor checking out what Santa brought him.
Santa got him this wooden toy with all sorts of fun things to do.
He liked spinning the letters.
Whoopsies!
    While Connor played with his new toy, I made breakfast. It was quick and easy.
    After we ate, Aaron separated the presents. We opened ours first, and then helped Connor with his.
 
    Aaron bought Kylie a bone, but it was so messy that she had to eat it outside. When we checked on her a few minutes later, she was covered in it. Needless to say, she had to get a bath tonight. 
She liked ripping the tissue paper to pieces.
    Aaron and I decided to get each other small gifts this year since we are spending a lot of money to go back home for the holidays.
Connor got his daddy Dominoes
I got him Risk: Battlefield Edition. He saw it when we were in Minnesota and really wanted it.  
He got me a Brighton charm and spacer for my bracelet.
After we opened up our gifts to each other, we opened up presents from my mom and all of Connor's.
My mom got me Brighton earrings and other little gifts.
 You can never have too many socks.
 Connor started getting frustrated right about now...
Aaron bought him some clothes.
 Grandpa got him 2 new tractors.
 We took a quick break for a bottle and then opened more presents.
 We loved the Notre Dame hat, sweatshirt, and sweatpants my sister and brother-in-law got Connor.
 All of his new toys
 He got a ton of new pajamas.
New clothes.
Christmas as a family of 4 is so much more fun than when it was just the 3 of us!  

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