Christmas fun!

Raygan-Elise loves her Daddy! She has him wrapped. Today, She bumped heads with Reese and was crying. I got her calmed down and happy again, but Brian came upstairs to see what had happened. She looked at him and started crying again. I have never seen such a little baby do that just to get sympathy. My 3's and 4's in my class do it all the time. Start crying again to make a parent feel bad, but never a little one only 7 months old. We all laughed b/c it was so so cute!

Left to Right: Sister, Anna, Cousin, Shaun Leigh, Brother, John, and Me

L to R: Anna's son, John Aedon, Reese, Raygan-Elise, and Hammie

Reese laughing at the autographed book, Charlie Peanut, that SL gave him. They kept calling it naked peanut and would laugh so hard.


Raygan-Elise loves putting anything in her mouth, so she loved all the wrapping paper!!

I cannot believe another Christmas has come and gone. This was an unusual Christmas b/c for the first time ever we didn't have it at my Ruru's Christmas Eve night (which is our family's tradition) . But this year it was moved up one week b/c my Uncle Bill was getting married on Dec. 27. We had Christmas with the S.L. and family on night of Dec. 20. S.L. had the house decorated so cute! She made individual Christmas tree cakes and had the kids ice them and decorate. We opened gifts and enjoyed food and drinks! As S.L passed out gifts, Reese kept looking at Tags and then finally asked "Who are the Free Mans?" Of course, Freeman is their last name and the tag said From, The Freeman's. Everyone laughed so hard. I guess in 6 years we have really never taught him last names in our family except ours. That became a joke throughout the night and the next day. Raygan-Elise loved trying to eat the tissue paper and bags. I tried to take cute pics of them together but never got a great one. We stayed up late and spent the night at S.L.'s. The next day we had Christmas at Ruru's. It was a mad house as usual. Lots of family! This year we had to have it in the small den, instead of living room. That was strange. It was also strange having it on Sunday afternoon, instead of Christmas Eve night. We had a vegetarian meal b/c after shopping they left the bag with turkey at store. Then, the butcher replaced it with a frozen one. Everyone buys for the kids, so they had tons to open. Reese enjoyed it so much. And everyone kept joking-- That is from the Youngs, that is from the Kings, etc. Raygan-Elise was very overstimulated and cried and cried. So, Mom took her into the other room, and I opened her presents. She gets upset when there is too much going on in small space! Reese's big present from Ruru, Mamaw, and Hammie was Rockband for WII (which he doesn't have). When he saw it, he said but its for WII. Hammie said, "No! I thought it was for your computer." He said, "It's Ok...Santa is bringing me a Wii for Christmas." And of course everyone laughed!! Raygan-Elise got her first Cabbage Patch kid (a preemie just like her!) from Hammie. Although she opened it after Christmas. On Dec. 23, we visited Brian's Aunt Joan and Mamaw for the day! Again, Raygan-Elise wasn't in the best mood, but the visit was nice and the food was good. Reese loves going to Louisville so he has a blast. They got more toys and cute clothes!! It was very strange not attended St. Elizabeth's packed Christmas Eve mass, but the mass at Holy Spirit was beautiful! And since I was in town, I was able to go to the Hospital and hold Baby Jack (Bethany's little boy) on Christmas Eve when he was less than 12 hours old!! That is such a sweet feeling to hold a newborn on Christmas!!! It was also so much fun for our little family to have 2 children this Christmas! Reese was very excited while visiting family! Of course, he was quiet and shy when seeing what Santa left him. He always is...I think he gets overwhelmed by it all. He just walks in the room and looks around. His big present from Santa was a WII and Wii games and game table. Now, we have all been playing WII for 6 days straight. It is a lot of fun. He also got Magnetics (which he's asked for for 3 years) and many Barakagun items (his new character). Raygan-Elise got a new jumper toy, blanket, soft doll and toys. We got Reese a Ben 10 toy he wanted and got Raygan-Elise her 1st baby doll- a Baby Alexander doll. We enjoyed spending the day together. I was very sad to think that this would be our last time for Brian and I to have a 1st Christmas with a new child. I cried. Now, we have been resting from all our travels, taking it easy, staying in our pj's all day and resting!!! School starts back soon! I think Reese will have WII withdrawals when classes start back, and I will definitely have withdrawals from not being able to stay home with Raygan-Elise and Reese all day! It has been nice!