Christmas this year was spent with my side of the family, and we had a great time celebrating. A lot of my family's traditions take place on Christmas Eve. We started the evening with our traditional "breakfast" dinner, it was sooooo yummy! This is a tradition that started when my dad was a boy growing up, and it has continued for many years and we ALL love it. Afterwards we all gathered in the family room for a Christmas story, our story this year was
The Forgotten Carols. It was then time for all the kids to open one gift, each of them got pajamas. They all looked so cute in their new cozy pajamas. Kyra was starting to get sleepy, so we had her place her stocking on the table for Santa and she went night night. We then did the adult gift exchange. Our family had Brent, my younger brother. Recently Brent has bought a new I-phone and computer, so we decided to get him I-tunes gift cards, there were four cards in all. Bryce was in charge of the wrapping and wrapped each one differently, so Brent would not suspect they were all the same thing. My sister Lexie's family had our family. I got black boots, Bryce got some tools, and Kyra got a dress up kit. We were all very thankful. This year Bryce and I decided to stay the night at my parents house, so after everyone went home we played games with Brent and Brady. We all had a wonderful Christmas Eve night together! Thanks mom and dad for making it a memorable night!
Christmas morning was a lot of fun too. Kyra woke up about 8:00, so we took her downstairs and we collected our stockings. We went back upstairs to play with our stocking stuffers until everyone else woke up and was ready to open presents. Around 9:00 we all gathered in the living room to open presents. It was so fun to see Kyra's face light up with each gift she opened. We got Kyra a wooden block set, a Little People farm set, and Mr. Potato Head. Grandpa and Grandma got her musical toys, a toy phone, and books. She loved them all. Bryce and I had fun exchanging gifts, but got no pictures, so here are a few of Kyra. We relaxed most of the day as different groups within the family went to the movies. Everyone met back together for a nice Christmas dinner. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!
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I love that you guys do the Christmas Eve breakfast thing too. The day before is bigger than actual Christmas Day because we have had that tradition forever.
Looks like you had a wonderful Christmas Lindy!! Kyra is such a darling girl!! So big now!! Love you and miss you!!
SO cute! Thankyou so much for posting a pic of your whole family-we never get to see all of you- so it's always so nice to see a pic of everyone! Everyone is so beautiful! I've always thought your family is so attractive. Kyra is soooo cute! I'm glad you got to spend time with yoru fam. Breakfast on Christmas eve- my Dad has NEVER told us about that. It sounds like from Kristi's comment the Hollingsworth's do that too?
oh my gosh, that girl is SO SO SO CUTE!!!!! Merry Christmas, Ellsworths! You look so great too, you're pretty TEENY TINY for being preggers, ya know! You can eat a burger now and give us BIG GIRLS a fighting chance! :) Love you so much!
It is amazing that the Breakfast Christmas Eve tradition has carried over into most of our families. It is absolutely adored by our family. Walt thought it very strange when we first got married, but tolerated it. After a year or two, he really got into it. First it was fancy syrups, then gradually fancy omelets too. Now it is variety of meats, strawberry and whip cream pancakes, mexi-eggs or plain scrambled, and the list goes on. What fun you all had. However, I want to know...in the large family group, who is that skinny balding guy sitting in the middle of the front row?
Christmas Eve breakfast is the best! I love that we all do it still. You look so adorable all pregnant.
You look so cute prego! It's been what, 4 months since we've seen you!! We miss you guys! You need to come out and see us before you have that baby!
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