Christmas Day was a long, fun, white, beautiful day. Brian & I celebrated at home in the morning by making our traditional cinnamon French toast (this year we used yummy bread from Great Harvest Bread Company) and exchanging gifts. He surprised me with a gorgeous locket that I'll soon be able to use to showcase a photo of our little one. I surprised him with a Drew Brees jersey ... and coordinating infant onesie.Then we headed over to his parents' house for a whirlwind day, which ended with dinner for 13 with grandma, aunts & uncles and cousins who drove from out-of-town and flew in from out-of-state. (The cousins and grandma are pictured above.)
See if you can spot a theme to our gifts this year:
We gave Brian's brother Eric a frame that says, "Uncle: Like Dad, only cooler" with a framed sonogram photo. He may have had the surprise gift of the day, though, with a set of KU baby accessories he sewed (with some help from a friend) that included a bib, hooded towel and burp cloth. He was very proud of his work, which was cute. (I think he's warming up to this uncle thing.)
And, because we'd like a written documentary of our child's great-grandmother's life, we gave Brian's grandma the book "Grandmother Remembers: A Written Heirloom for My Grandchild."
And we gave Brian's parents the book "The Grandparent's Book of Shared Memories."
We had "Grandma's Kitchen" embroidered on an apron for Brian's mom.
For his new office at work, we gave Brian's dad a Three Generations frame filled with family photos.
We were pleased to receive many baby items, including memory and photo albums, clothes, a mobile, books, the glider we had registered for and more. (You can't tell this family is excited for May, can you?!)
Even the pups had a wonderful day:
What a blessed Merry Christmas.
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