Christmas Day Fun!!!!

For Christmas this year, we went to my parent's house to

spend Christmas with my family. It was a lot of fun.

Here is a picture of the grandma's getting ready to watch

the kids open their Christmas presents....

And a picture of my brother Jeremy and his fiance' Amy....

We took turns opening gifts so everyone could see watch

what was being opened. Here is my nephew Brayden opening his

present with Cheyenne and Trevin watching to see what he gets...

Grandpa is just chilling and watching all of the activity.

Trevin was so excited to open his presents...

My brother Jon was not wanting his picture taken so he was making

funny faces at the camera :)

Here is Nathan opening up one of his presents. He

thought he would pose for the camera before he finished opening

his gift....

More present opening....

This is what the room looked like with all of the presents

open. Now it is time to get a garbage bag and try to

clean up all of the wrapping paper that is thrown

all over.

Brayden really wanted to start playing with some of the

toys that he had received for Christmas...

After we opened all of our presents, we decided to go down to the

park to see all of the Christmas lights. On the left is Mom and Dad in an

igloo that was in the park and on the right is Brayden doing a

handstand on the dance pad....

Here are a few pictures of the decorations at the park.

It was a very fun Christmas getting to spend time with my family!!!

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