Christmas Stockings!

So for as long as I can remember, my mom has made our stockings! Every couple of years we would get new and bigger ones! So I decided that this year, with the help of my mom, I wanted to make my little family's stockings! It was so much fun! I picked out all of the material and the decorations and my mom did the sewing! They turned out sooooo good!

Santa came!!

We have kind of made it a tradition in the Luna family to spend Christmas eve with my side of the family and Christmas day with Nemo's. It seems to be working out and I love all of the family time!

Most every year on the Carroll side, we do a name draw and everyone buys a gift for whoever they drew, so everyone gets something! We love doing this! We choose a price limit that works for everbody and go shopping! Brandy (my oldest sister) drew my name and she got me the cutest makeup case, a scarf, some earings and lip gloss! I was so happy to get the makeup case because mine was running out of room!

We did dinner at my mom's for Christmas eve. We had a soup buffet! There were 5 different soups, bread, rolls, sandwich stuff, and I made my famous cream cheese crab dip which was a hit!!! Also there were about 15 desserts!

We ate and then opened gifts! I always buy pj's for my kids to wear Christmas eve so they opened those and then opened the other gifts that they had. All year Austin has been bugging me for a pillowpet, but I had told my mom that's what he wanted for Christmas so everytime he would ask for one I would tell him maybe he would get one for Christmas! So the look on his face when he opened it was priceless! It was his very favorite present of all! Stratton liked his puppy pillowpet but he prefers cars and trucks much more. So he really loved the hot wheels track that Aunt Brandy and Uncle Scott got for him! Hadley got 3 babydolls! But I see her playing with Stratt's trucks more often.. oh no.. please not a tomboy!

Christmas morning is my favorite! I love the look on my babies faces when they see what Santa brought! The rest of the morning was spent lounging around, playing with toys, and watching the movies that Santa brought! Just to name a few of the gifts they got: Austin got the movie he wanted and the bike he asked for, Stratton also got a bike and he got a remote control semi truck which exceeded every other thing he got! He loves it! Hadley got a rocking horse and a baby stroller! I loved every minute of that morning!

Winter Fun!

Oh Christmas time! I absolutely love this time of year! All of the family together, the music, the baking, the shopping, and all of the fun things there are to do!

We did alot of fun things! We took the kids to Buckeye's annual Glow on Monroe light parade. We had a fun time and we got to hang out with the Lacy family!

At Austin's school this year, they did a little "Christmas Concert." It was cute to see all of the kids up on stage singing their little Christmas songs!

That picture was taken on my phone so it's a little blurry. Austin's in the red!

We also had the wonderful opportunity to go to Austin's school for his Polar Express party! We ate breakfast, played games, and then watched The Polar Express (the movie we didn't stick around for)! But it was a fun time! Even Hadley and Stratton loved it!

We attempted to take the kids to Glendale Glitters but when we got there, there were about 2000 people that had the same idea for the evening! So we drove through and looked at the lights with a passing glance, and then stopped at the little candy factory up the road! Since we sort of skipped out on the lights, we let them get some candy!