Merry Christmas

Christmas Morning this year was absolutely perfect because I awoke to celebrate the Birthday of Jesus with my precious family of four! I told Preston that I already had everything I needed this year with my Gracie and Bailey and that my heart was content. I really did not want to do presents this year but Santa insisted and so we just did a couple..Santa brought mommy a new glider for the nursery and he surprised Daddy with a video camera. Gracie and Bailey's big present were their highchairs. Preston's family came over to our house on Christmas morning to watch the twins on their first Christmas and we celebrated with mimosas and Christmas Breakfast.

Christmas morning in our home

Mommy and Daddy with the twins big presents

Gracie in her Christmas pajamas

Aunt Kara feeding Bailey his Christmas morning breakfast

Daddy Bob and Bailey before Christmas breakfast

Daddy helping Bailey open his present

Aunt Kara and Daddy helping the twins open presents



Pretty much right after our Christmas breakfast we packed up the car and headed to Macon to celebrate with my family. We were very grateful for Preston's mom staying to help cleanup and watch the twins as we packed the car for a very long holiday trip to Macon and the Beach trip. We just barely were able to fit everything in the car complete with Dixie in the front seat and Mommy in the back in between the twins! The twins had a blast celebrating in Macon with all of their cousins. Santa brought all the big cousins beanbags this year and they were a big hit!

Bailey borrowing one of his cousins beanbags!
Bailey, Mommy, and Daddy with our new side by side jogging stroller!

Bailey with cousin, Molly Kay.

Each year we celebrate Christmas with Preston's family on Christmas Eve at his parents home. We start the night with the Christmas story scripture from the Bible and then his mom has somebody read the Christian version of "Twas the Night before Christmas." Preston's little sister, Kara is usually Santa and has the job of handing out the presents. Bailey got his first laptop from Grammy and Daddy Bob and Gracie received her first Madame Alexander doll.

Mommy and her sweet little one's at Grammy and Daddy Bob's house.

Aunt Nicole and Bailey in his Santa hat.

The McFarland Boys!

Our Family on Christmas Eve!

Tis the Season to be Jolly

I was beyond excited about the holidays this year with our expanded family. We started off the year with decorating our house the weekend before Thanksgiving. We had help in town from my parents and sister and so we knew we would be crazy if we didn't get the decorations up while we had help. I have to admit I was a little disappointed that the twins seemed to pay more attention to the news on TV then the Christmas tree but they seemed to enjoy it more and more each day and I am sure that next year it will be an even bigger hit then I would like it to be! As a stay at home mommy it was especially nice for me to have the decorations up to enjoy during my days. The twins and I had so much fun singing all the Christmas songs which gave us a break from our everyday songs that we sing throughout the day!

These are some of our photos taken at my parents home that we used for our Christmas card. I was so excited to have Gracie and Bailey on our card this year.


I absolutely love the way that Gracie is looking at her daddy in this pic!


Mommy is all ready to go to her Inpatient Hospice Unit's Christmas Party. Uncle Parker and Aunt Nicole were sweet to babysit so we could attend. Daddy and I had a great time!

Our Family pic with Santa at Preston's work Christmas party. We are SO blessed that Preston's work has a family Christmas Party that provides fun activities for the children and babysitters! Gracie and Bailey were on their best behavior for the party and we all had fun.

Last but not least....we hosted a Christmas Party at our home for our extended family. It was great because so many relatives had not yet had a chance to meet Gracie and Bailey and so it was the perfect opportunity to reconnect with family.