Noonie~ I sure hope these pictures bring a big smile to your face because they sure do for me! Love you so much!
The littles with Noonie and Papa J...ready to go to Christmas Mass.
Our little family...
Dinner at Olive Garden after church...
{notice Hudson's gIGAntIC plate of croutons...the boy is obsessed with croutons!!}
Back home to open gifts!
"It's what I always WISHTED for!!!"
Noonie~ I think it's safe to say, the Pirate Ship was a BIG hit!!
Grace's turn...
Just a couple of weeks before Christmas, the little pumpkin added "Marie-Grace" to her wish list...so glad Noonie was able to make that dream come true!!
Sweet, giddy smiles like this is what Christmas is ALL about!
ThANk yOU, Noonie!!! I LOVE Marie-Grace!!
ThANk yOU, Papa J!!!
Not to be outdone, Hudson jumped in on the hugfest!
But these next set of pictures is what it's all about for me...laughing and sharing with those you love. My grandpa used to LOVE having paper fights after all the presents were open so this year the littles helped me and we were able to surprise Noonie and Papa J with our very own "peanut" paper fight!!
We told them to close their eyes and put out their hands and then the littles went behind the sofa and...
I have no doubt my Abuelito was smiling down from heaven watching all this ruckus...
Time for some presents for Noonie and Papa J...
...and even some for Lance and me!
Thank you Noonie and Papa J!
More fun things for the littles...
ThANk yOU, Noonie and Papa J!
And one very special little present for my dear mom who told me a couple of weeks before Christmas that she had never had a stocking growing up...
...so I remedied that with a sweet one made out of vintage sheets to remind her of her childhood and a buttery yellow floral background since yellow is her very favorite color. I hope this stocking brings you a smile for years to come, Noonie!
A funny moment... Noonie got these little monogrammed cube totes for the littles and as soon as this little boy opened his, he said, "my very own PURSE!"
hahahahaha!!!
Lance was not too keen on Hudson's statement but he was just too cute!
Oh, how I love these sweet littles...
This was a sweet, sweet night spent with the people I love most, especially this amazing lady I'm blessed to call mom...
We celebrated Christmas for 4 days straight!! Well, really we celebrated all season but you know what I mean!!
First up on Saturday...Mimi and Pop's!
Two words: Kids Everywhere!! So.much.fun!!
They love hanging out with each other, but in all the craziness, I didn't get a pic of the littles with Mimi and Pop - boo :( So I'm adding this one from Mimi's birthday just a couple of weeks earlier...the littles are cRaZY about their grandparents!!
The littles had a blast opening presents and boy, they sure got spoiled!!
We have full-on entered a Star Wars craze around here...{you know what else he loves? this dinosaur shirt!! thank you Mimi for Grace and Hudson's cute outfits!!}
Thanks to Mimi and Pop, she now has better technology than Lance and I...
Puzzles. This little boy LOvEs puzzles and he's really good at putting them together too! Love that about him!
All the littles always gravitate toward Pop. They LOOOOOVE him!!
Thank you Mimi and Pop, Aunt Tammie, Aunt Lexi and Co. for all the generous gifts!!
Way, way more than we deserve!
Sunday we drove to see Memema, Aunt Marilyn, Lance's dad Papaw and Mimsy for more Christmasing...
Aunt Marilyn turned her garage into a gathering space - the littles LOVE it there! I tried to snap a cute pic of my littles and well, they were waaaay too excited to cooperate. Still, so sweet. And so them!
All of my pics are of the little people - I've got to do better next time capturing the grown-ups too! Lainee was a hoot getting into Aunt Marilyn's Mardi Gras beads...
Papaw always gets the littles a bag full of candy to go along with all their other goodies...they LoVE the candy...I LoVE this little tin of old-fashioned peppermints!
Hudson sporting an orange soda mustache and pondering his next sugar rush weapon...
Sweet Tiffany...
One more of Miss Lainee who loves the camera and asked me to take her pic with this sparkly Barbie barrette...what can I say, the girl loves her bling!
And then I just stopped taking pics...just wanted to be in the moment and soak in all the sweet giggles and high-pitched "awesomes!", rather than stay behind the lens...ever feel that way???
One last one...phone pic, so not the best quality, but these littles made Christmas so much fun - loved watching them run around and play with each other...the little kid gang!
But even as I watched them, my mind kept going back to Sandy Hook Elementary and the sweet littles that will not be there to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones this year. My heart aches for their families. Sending lots of prayers...
Next up, Christmas Eve with Noonie and Papa J!
