The Holidays

Wow... what a fun holiday week we had. I was super excited about Christmas this year because Greyson was so into it. He knew that Santa was bringing him gifts... Choo Choo... so I think I had the anticipation of Christmas morning like I haven't had in a long time. But to back track a little... we changed up the tradition a bit this year. We had an amazing dinner at the Santa Ana Country Club with my moms parents and her sisters family, as well as all of us 'Reehl' girls' families. The kids all looked really cute for the holiday... Maddy stole the show with her white tulle skirt, shiny red shirt and beanie. Brody looked pretty stinkin cute in a hand-me-down from Grey... and Grey was breaking the rules by wearing denim, hey, he's my kid... we like to push the boundaries at the Club =)

Then on Christmas Eve day us girls all went to mom and dad's to start two crockpots full of Chili!!! Yep, we ditched the 'usual' food and went for ease and comfort and it was AMAZING!!! Casey was our bread bowl shaper and he did a great job. There was plenty of food, desserts and LOTS of drinks. After dinner we opened up presents from each other and Gamma and Poppi. The kids were so excited. Auntie Lou and Uncle Casey really out did themselves on the gift giving and we all loved it. Thanks to them Greyson has the biggest Lightening McQueen car ever. And we are soooo excited how it says "kapow kachow" over and over and over again ;)

After lots of gift opening we all went home to our houses and got ready for Santa to arrive. Cookies were put out along with milk and we all went to bed. Come Christmas morning there was the biggest train table in our living room and Greyson was in a state of silent shock. All he could say is "wow." It was so fun. He didn't even realize there was more gifts to open. About 45 minutes after we started we were finished and it was only 7:45am. It was awesome. Then we just hung out all day having sporatic visitors... my family, then Geoff's parents.

At about 5pm we headed to Geoff's sisters house for a yummy traditional Christmas feast. We were so lucky to get to listen to Greyson's new L.M. saying its "kapow kachow" the entire way there. But we were still smiling, cause hey... it was Christmas night.

Greyson played so nicely with Jack and Lauren and all their new toys. He scarfed down the turkey, corn and mash potatoes. It was a really fun night, and great to spend it with Geoff's family. That is our tradition...