Merry Christmas Y'all!

We had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends celebrating the birth of Jesus! I only had Christmas Day off of work, but it was a great time to be together as a family!

The weekend before Christmas, we traveled to Atlanta for Christmas with my dad's side of the family. We had a wonderful time together, but missed several of the cousins who couldn't be there!

 Christmas Eve is always a special time for the children at the hospital. We try to make it very special for the patients and their whole family! Thanks to amazing donations, we are able to wrap gifts for each patient and sibling, and then Santa comes and we deliver the packages! It is such a blessing to be a part of making the day happy! There were many excited children, and I saw one dad crying because of how touched he was! Here is our amazing team of helpers!

 One of our intensive care doctors told me I looked just like one of Santa's helpers! I had fun dressing Christmasy for the kiddos! :)

 I was able to leave work in time to make it to the Christmas Eve service at my parent's church, and then joined the rest of the family at my parent's house for Christmas Eve! These precious young'uns made it all so exciting! Here they are in their matching PJ's:

 Granddaddy reading the Christmas story before we went to bed:

 Christmas morning babies trying out a new toy:

 My parents always make Christmas morning so special! My mom gets up extra early and has a huge breakfast ready when we wake up! I treasure those memories of Christmas morning from years past, and I am so thankful that we could all be home this year together!

 Thomas was so much fun! Here he is reading one of his books from Uncle Nathan and Aunt Laura:

 Playing cars with Aunt RuRu

 Love those chubby cheeks!

 Sisters (missing Laura):

 All the boys (missing Nathan):

 Precious!

Nathan and Laura drove in from Mississippi and got to the house around lunch! We were so glad they were able to make it! Late afternoon, we have our Christmas day dinner! A few years ago we started the tradition of having steak and baked potatoes and we LOVE it! It's a tasty dinner without too much work! Eating by candlelight:

 Aunt RuRu and her baby girl!

 Sisters again...colored skinny pants were the fashion this year!

I am so thankful for each one of my family and praise God for his goodness to us!