Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

Dear Charlie,

This year we got to celebrate Christmas THREE times.  Once at home, again at Grammy and Pa's, and then again at Nana and Papa's.

A couple of weeks before Christmas, we decorated our tree.

A few days before Christmas, you opened up your presents from Dad and me.  I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning putting together this work bench for you.  You love playing with Daddy's tools more than anything, so I thought it was time for you to have your own tools.

Then we went to Grammy and Pa's house.  We took a trip down Christmas Card Lane.

We played in the backyard with your cousins.

On Christmas eve, we opened presents.

Then we went to Nana and Papa's house.  Nana had all of you kids, and some of the adults re-enact the Nativity. Since we had more children than there were costumes, we had to improvise a bit.  You did a great job as the giraffe who worshipped the baby Jesus.

Nana also asked Santa to pay us a special visit so that we could have our matching Christmas jammies.

Christmas morning was pretty crazy with all of you kids tearing open your presents, so I didn't get any pictures.  We did have a wonderful time celebrating Christ's birthday with our family.

Love,
Mom