Christmas 2009

If I could use ONE word to describe our Christmas this year it would be..... RELAXING!!!!! We really did have such a wonderful Christmas without the usual rushing around like crazy trying to get to a bunch of different houses! We began the morning by waking Maddy up and doing Christmas gifts at our house! Maddy walked into the living room and was so excited to see her Neat and Tidy Cottage playhouse! She thought it was so cool! She was also very impressed with the Princess tent and picnic table. She wanted to open all of her presents at the picnic table! She would pick a gift and then take it to her table to open and then do the same thing again! We opened gifts for what seemed like forever and then just layed around the living room in our PJ's and opened and played with all of Maddy's new things!

After a little while we got dressed and headed to my Grandma and Grandpa Ford's house for Christmas breakfast. Maddy was thrilled to get there and see her buddies Joshy and Will! My Mom read the letter and we had a delicious breakfast and then went outside to visit and take some family pics! Afterwards we came back in and opened gifts and shared lots of memories about my Grandpa that left us ALL in tears! Although they were sad tears they were also happy tears for all of the amazing, wonderful times that we had with Grandpa.

Next, we went to the cemetery to visit Tyler. His little Christmas tree still looked great! We stayed for a little bit and talked with him like we usually do when we visit. I told him about how much I would have loved to have him here with us diving into his Christmas gifts right alongside Maddy. I reminded him to give Gramps (Matt' Grandpa) and Grandpa Ford extra hugs and kisses from us! We headed back home after this and we all took naps! It was so nice!

That evening we went over to my parents house to exchange gifts and we picked up KFC on the way there for dinner since that was the ONLY place we could find that was open on Christmas Day! Had lots of fun at my parents and then spent the rest of the evening together just playing.

We also went to our other Grandparents house on Christmas Eve for dinner and present with the whole family. And the day after Christmas we celebrated with Matt's side of the family because his Dad and brother had to work on Christmas Day.So there is what we did! The best part of Christmas? Having Maddy and Matt to spend it with!