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Four Christmases




You know that movie Four Christmases? We lived it. We technically had five Christmases. My pictures loaded up all out of order so I'll just tell about the Christmas of each picture.This was at Aaron's grandparents ranch. They had a real tree. By that I mean they went out and picked it and cut it themselves. I always love Grandma Fletcher's tree because it had a bunch of ornaments she made herself and lots of old ornaments that her mother made. It is hours of entertainment to look at the tree and hear the stories about the ornaments. We got there on Christmas day night and then had Christmas dinner with them the day after Christmas. Aaron's Dad and his wife were there and Anna's sister and her husband came for dinner. We had a good time there.
This is Maddy's Christmas outfit that Aaron's Aunt Sherry gave Maddy. She works at the Salvation army and found it there. Someone had donated it brand new. I will probably redonate it since Maddy will not be small enough to wear it next Christmas. At least she'd better not be! She was so cute in this outfit. We had to wait til after lunch to put it on her because there house was burning up which is why she is in just a diaper in the next picture.
This is us on Christmas day at Aunt Sherry's house. We of course had another yummy Christmas dinner here. I'd better get another half marathon lined up.
This is Christmas eve and Maddy in her Christmas pjs. Rachel bought her some pjs and I was going to have her wear those. I had them by me when Aunt Sherry brought out pjs she'd bought for her. I quickly slam dunked the pjs from Rachel in Maddy's bag and put the other one's on and had Maddy wear Rachel' pjs on Christmas day night. Such is life.
Okay so she obviously had a ton of Christmas outfits but I had to buy her one too and she wore this one CHristmas eve day. SO cute!
This is Christmas eve day with Aaron's brother. Maddy is with her cousins Trenton and Kodi. Trenton is the one holding Maddy. We gave them a book and ten bucks a piece. They were super excited about getting money. Maddy got a really nice eyore blanket that Amanda had made. We had to have a separate Christmas with them because Amanda won't let her kids be around Aaron's mom right now. Long ridiculous story that I will not get started on, but this was why we had a 5th CHristmas.
We went to Andrea Howard's wedding when we were in Montrose. Jessica was the maid of honor so we got to see her. As you can see, she looked fabulous in her bridesmaids dress and Maddy looked pretty cute in the dress she wore too.

We did our Christmas before we left. I don't have any pics of that right now because they are all on the other computer. We had Papa Murphy's pizza for dinner and Rachel and Tricia came over. Before they came over we opened our gifts. Maddy got a ball, a baby mozart dvd, a sippy cup, a cup that could be a bottle, sippy cup or straw, and a beanie hat. Rachel gave her Christmas pjs. It was simple but a great time. Then the next day we left for our trip. We went to Lubbock first and stayed the night and then the next day we car pooled to Colorado Springs with Ethan and Jenna. Everyone came to Mom and Dad's house and we had a great Eckstein family Christmas. Everyone went in together and got Maddy an exersaucer and she absolutely loves it! The next day we took off for Montrose to see Aaron's family.
So I think I've had enough Christmas for awhile. I'm looking forward to a raucous New Year's eve celebration with my family though!

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Brandon said…
Lots of fun seeing all the relatives huh? We had about 3-4 Christmases too. But they were a little more spread out time wise.
December 28, 2009 at 6:05 PM
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