Christmas as Nana's

Every year, my Nana hosts Christmas lunch at her house. We have such a large family, and I absolutely love going because it is one of the few chances I get to see most everyone. It also holds such precious memories of me and my cousins playing chase and baseball in the front yard. This year, my cousin Matt brought a large bounce house for the kids, and it was a hit. I don't think many families can say they had a bounce house for Christmas!

 My brother and his family.

 My beautiful niece, Makayla.

 Jack LOVED bouncing in the bounce house. I'm glad Daddy was such a good sport to spend so much time jumping with him!

 Our annual family Christmas picture...minus a few.

 These boys melt my heart. I don't think you can tell, but they are holding hands!

 My sister and her family.

 My cousin, Camille. We try to do this picture annually!

 My amazing Nana!

 

 

Lord, thank you for the birth of your son and for a time to celebrate it with family.

Christmas Eve

We left Three Rivers on Monday and headed to Fort Worth to be with my family on Christmas. For Christmas Eve, we always head over to my aunt Ginger's house, eat, hang out, and open gifts. We even ended this year with a fun game called Salad Bowl.

 All we were missing were my brother and his family and Brian.

 Jacob and his crew!

Christmas wth The Jambers

We celebrated Christmas with John's family the weekend before Christmas. We had all of his aunts and uncles out Saturday for lunch and then did Christmas with Grams, Pops, Aunt Sharla, and Uncle Travis that evening. Jack opened up quite a few Mickey Mouse things along with a giraffe puppet. My child LOVES to have things talk so this was right up his alley.

If you can see, Puppy the puppet also had to make a appearance with the new giraffe.

Thanks Grams and Pops & Aunt Sharla and Uncle Travis for loving my boy so incredibly much.

Baking Cookies Attemp 2

Over Christmas, Sharla wanted to bake & decorate cookies with Jack. I was all for it considering my first attempt was an utter failure! Sharla made the dough and rolled it out...and Jack cut out until his heart was happy! There was quite a bit of dough :)

 The cookies were set and ready to bake. This was the real test...were they edible?! That they were so it was decorating time. I wasn't feeling the best so I stood behind the camera the whole time. Let's just say it progressively got messier and messier, but Jack absolutely LOVED it!

 After the taste test, it was straight to bath!

Thanks Aunt Sharla for such a great time! Let's do this every year :)

My little piano player

Ever since Jack was able to climb pretty much, he would crawl up and sit next to Grams while she would practice playing the piano. There would be this beautiful song accompanied with "bam, bam, bam!" He loves to flip the pages in the hymnal and pretend he is playing. I was able to capture this over Christmas.

 

I think we might have a future piano player here.