Christmas

Our Christmas celebrations started on the 23rd, the day after we finished Drew's birthday celebrations. It was a bit tricky fitting in all of the celebrating! We had a traditional Christmas dinner with my grandma, parents, brother and his girlfriend who all graciously came to our house since AJ worked quite a bit surrounding Christmas. My mom and grandma brought a ton of food and did the majority of the kitchen work which made hosting Christmas quite simple!



After dinner, we opened gifts.

Stockings from Grammy and Grandpa


A gift for Baby!


Sugar cookies are definitely a tradition with the Blackburn side, so we made sure to fit that in the next morning.


The whole family gets involved in the decorating, and the most impressive cookie is usually made by Uncle Brock.


The girls got to sing in our church's Christmas Eve service. The kids choir stood on stage facing everyone while the congregation sang along to some familiar songs. The girls were pretty excited to "sing in a choir!"


Christmas morning we read from the Jesus Storybook Bible then opened the stockings and gifts that AJ and I got for the kids.


Love each of their expressions as they check out their stockings. The fruit snacks in their stockings may have been the biggest excitement of the morning!


After opening gifts and breakfast with my family, we drove to Ozark for Christmas with AJ's family. Here's four of the six grandkids reading the Christmas story with Poppie.


Alexandria is always so sweet to teach Lydia some dances and dance with her. Sweet cousins! What a treat to have quality time with both sides of the family near Christmas!