You have to have the holiday goodies, or it's just not the holidays! :)
All the stockings on the fireplace.
And the table is set for our traditional Christmas Eve candlelit dinner. A favorite tradition of mine!
After dinner, Grandma Kathy gathered all the grandkids around to read them The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck.
Then everyone opened up their Christmas Eve gifts (for most of us, it consisted of pajamas.)
Zack's say "My 1st Christmas." Mommy was a bit excited for his first Christmas! :) But he's so stinkin' adorable! Afterwards, Uncle Tyler read Luke 2, and the kids all put the characters in their correct places in the stable using one of Grandma's Nativity sets. We then watched The Nativity movie, set out cookies and treats for Santa, and went to bed.
Zack was the first one up on Christmas morning. We waited in our room for another hour for everyone else to get up! But he was happy and excited to be awake! Mommy and Daddy... Not so much yet! :)
Wood Family Tradition states that you have to drink a mug of either milk, egg nog, or hot chocolate before you can go in to see if Santa came.
And sure enough, he did! And he brought Zack a Baby Einstein Exersaucer! Grandma and Grandpa Romberg got him a little sports center and Grandma and Grandpa Wood got him a monkey... A fake one! Don't worry! Here he is sorting through the rest of his Christmas goods! He was very hungry for his own breakfast, so we kind of plowed through Christmas so we could eat. But we still had a good time!
Everyone had a great time!The day after Christmas, we got family pictures taken together. They turned out pretty good! Here are all the families in our family! :)
My wonderful parents who started it all! I love my parents. They are both wonderful people who would sacrifice anything for the ones they love. They are amazing people and I am so blessed to have them for my parents.
My brother Dusty, his wife Hilary, and their kids Jaxon, Lilie, and Alex who got to be all bundled up for this picture!
My favorite sister, Kacie, with her husband Nathan and their kids Brystal and Boston. So glad they made it all the way from Texas to be here for the holiday!
Here is our little family. I liked how the photographer did this one in a sepia tone. It looks neat!
The photographer took some cute candid pictures of Zack, and later said that he was the best baby he'd ever worked with because he was so happy and smiley, even though we were all freezing! I pretty much have the best baby ever!
And last, but not least, "The Alone One" as the photographer affectionately called him. This is really my younger brother Tyler. He goes into the MTC on Wednesday to go on his mission to Stockholm, Sweeden so it's probably a good thing he was "alone!" But he is so pumped and ready for his mission and he's such a great kid!
And here we all are! For the last time together in (at least) 2 years. We had such a great time with my family!And to end the post, here are some random pictures taken throughout the break. Hope your Christmas was just as fun as ours!
Tooth #2 popped through on January 1! Happy New Year Zack!
Attack Uncle Nathan!
All the grandkids!Top: Jaxon, Lilie, Brystal (Nathan... Not a grandkid, but there to make Brystal happy!)
Bottom: Alex, Zack, Boston
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