We love Christmas! This year was especially wonderful since it was Reese's very first. We enjoyed spending time with family at the Bowen Christmas party, the Neel Christmas party, at our house on Christmas eve, and then at Sarah's parents house on Christmas day.
Lee and I woke up on Christmas morning around 7:30 and decided to exchange our presents before Reese woke up. She woke up around 8:00, ate breakfast, and then we sat with her by the tree and began opening her gifts. Reese wanted to play with every thing we opened... and the packaging it came in... which made for a long gift opening process. Reese was pretty tired after opening presents so she went down for a nap and Lee and I went right into assembly mode, un-boxing and putting together all of the new toys so that when she woke up she could start playing right away.
Reese sitting at her new desk from Aunt Lauren & Uncle Bill.
We went to Sarah's parents house around 11:30 for a great meal of eggs, bacon, biscuits, and coffee cake. It was yummy! Then we exchanged gifts with Mammy, The General, Sheppard, Kimberly, Nana & Big Daddy. Reese's favorite gift of all was the rocking horse that Mammy and the General got for her. She's still too young to get on it by herself but she loves for someone to hold her while she rocks and bounces away. She especially likes when the horse neighs, makes sounds like it's galloping, and plays cowboy music. If she can see the horse she points and fusses until you sit her on it.
Reese with her great grandmother, Nana.
Later in the afternoon we went back home so Reese could take a good nap and Lee and I could clean up some of the Christmas demolition that had taken place earlier in the morning. We went back over to Sarah's parents house (it's a good thing we live so close!) for a nice dinner of beef tenderloin, baked potatoes, pea salad and mac-n-cheese. Yummy! Lee helped set up the new Wii system that my mom got (Yes... my mom got a Wii for Christmas!) and we spent some time showing them how to use it. Then after loading up the rocking horse, it was time for Reese to go to bed so we headed home... again.
What a great Christmas... one to cherish forever.
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