First up is usually The Hage Family Christmas party. It always falls the Saturday before Christmas and includes all the extended Hage aunts, uncles, and cousins! This year it was at Preston's parents house!
My boys!
Here Ashton is opening a gift from Aunt Sandy. She got all the boys Nerf guns...perfect! :)
Self portrait with Ashton!
Self portrait with Ethan!
The Hages
The Cousins...
The following day I attended a Tea Party, hats and gloves required, to support Seniors First. My mother in law is on the board and got all of us a table. It was a lovely event! And too fun dressing up in vintage hats!!
After the tea was over, I made a beeline for Dedi's house! Here we celebrated Christmas with my mom's extended family side! I've got a bit of "hat head" here in this picture, but love it with my sweetie!
Here's Dedi sorting the gifts to give to the boys!
Ashton got a Star Wars lego set! He LOVES legos!!
Dedi opening up her gift from us. She requested a Tiffanie Tote! :)
We obliged. She was excited!
We had a few other parties we went to, but unfortunately I did not take any photographs!The next chronicled party was Christmas Eve, at my dads house! Here's my mom and the boys!
My dad, Hunter and my brother...three generations!
When we got home we quickly got underway making the traditional Monkey Bread we have every Christmas morning. We make it the night before, leaving it raw in the refrigerator, just have to stick it in the oven in the morning. This year the boys helped me! And what a huge help they were!!!
This is Christmas morning...think this is an adorable picture! :)
The boys get three gifts from us..
My dad, Hunter and my brother...three generations!
Me and Preston
When we got home we quickly got underway making the traditional Monkey Bread we have every Christmas morning. We make it the night before, leaving it raw in the refrigerator, just have to stick it in the oven in the morning. This year the boys helped me! And what a huge help they were!!!
They carefully rolled each dough ball
and sifted it thru the cinnamon sugar
This is Christmas morning...think this is an adorable picture! :)
The boys get three gifts from us..Something they READ
Something they NEED (this year it was Converse Tennis Shoes)
And Something they WANT (Ashton passed out from the excitement
of getting his DSi and games)
This year we did stocking stuffers a bit different. I wrote riddles/clues on where they could find their items...
Never know where you might find one....
After we spent time with just the four of us opening our presents to each other...my brother, Heath and his family came over to continue the festivities.Here is my adorable niece, Peyton
Hunter wanted to get right down to business...
We got a TON of board games this year from family which
is really awesome since Ashton LOVES playing them...
My mom got all excited over her new Tiffanie Tote bag! :)
My brother, who is so crafty and mechanically inclined...
built bird house parts for the boys to be able to
build on their own using tools
This is what the finished model will look like
Even came with step by step instructions that he made up!
Is that cool?
Our last party of the day is always dinner over at Nonna and Pop's house (Preston's parents). And of course, the kids get MORE gifts there too. Blessed beyond measure.
Cousins! Cooper and Ethan...they are only 6 months apart in age!!
Nonna and Pop got all the grandkids cool cameras this year. Here is Ashton fooling around with his!
And of course...the REASON for the SEASON!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!!!
Brothers! Preston and Brett
1 comment:
What a great Christmas y'all had!! I bet the monkey bread was yummy.
I loved seeing all the pictures...I'm loving your hair and glasses girlfriend!! Gorgeous.
And that cake...was it coconut cream frosting? Yummo.
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