What a cutie

 We had my brother and his family come visit for Christmas.  This is my nephew Jackson.  He was such a hoot.  Keep us crackin' up the whole time.

Christmas Day

With church at 9pm we didn't do our original Christmas morning breakfast of strawberry waffles.  That became our lunch.  Nate got up at midnight to get his stocking but the rest of us slept until time to get ready.

 Christmas Eve Jammies

 Typical Chris face.

 The gift of the season.

 My gift of the season.

 Lovin' his Sounders jersey.

The aftermath.

We open our gifts in stages.  Stage 1 is stockings.  You can open those whenever you want but don't wake the parents up.

Stage 2: Gifts from each other (aka Chris, Kaye, and Nathan)

Stage 3:  Santa gifts.  Yes Santa still comes to our house.

Stage 4:  Gifts from grandparents and other family members.

We take time between each stage to enjoy our gifts, clean up the mess, eat/get cleaned up, etc...

It makes Christmas last all day.  This is only our 2nd year doing it but we've really enjoyed it.



Trip to Arkansas

 Hike at Lake Catherine near Hot Springs, AR

 Hot Springs National Park,  AR

 Nate stayed back w/Uncle Kyle to go to a card shop so Chris and I got to enjoy a hike w/out any interruptions.

 Ranger Kaye

 Bath House Row in Hot Springs, AR

 Little Rock Central High School.  The first integrated school.

 Arkansas State Capital.  It was really beautifully decorated for Christmas.

 River Market District.

Hanging out in Santa's chair.

Christmas tree and Christmas party

 Since we were moving we put the tree up in the new house.  Granted, that's all that was in the new house for a while.

 Jackson and I hanging out at the Christmas party.

Nate and Jackson.  Nate has been a very good helper with Jackson.  Willing to help out where needed.