we had a little christmas celebration with mom, dad, mike, mimi, and me [as we usually do] before we went to florida to have christmas with my mom’s side of the family. we didn’t end up seeing my dad’s side of the family since we met them at the lake in august and it’s getting so difficult to try to coordinate everyone’s schedule on both sides of the family each year at christmas, so we’ve been taking turns.
anyway, i’ve been in the mindset lately that i need to start posting more often with shorter posts… it’s pretty difficult for me to do and sometimes there may be no way around the long posts [ha!], but i’m going to work on it!
so here are some snapshots of our little family christmas:
{blurry but lovely}
{hors d’oeuvres for dinner for a night of opening presents}
{this totally cracks me up. shiner thinks he runs the place. [and sometimes, he does!]} ;)
{…the problem is, he’s just too cute…}
{when mom and dad get a new vacuum for christmas, mom plays vanna white and the dog starts barking at it [with dad as the instigator!].} ;)
{i gave shiner a donut for christmas and he kept holding it with his nose in the hole. it was cracking us up.}
{a cool beer tree for mike’s wall from mimi!}
{mimi in her sparkly new jacket and dad with his new lucchese cowboy boots!}
{on the left, mike got a sweater, put it up to his eyes and said that it’s see-through, and dad held up his hand and asked how many fingers he’s holding up. and then mom took a pic. my weird family haha. ;) on the right, feeding shiner a dog cookie that i gave him for christmas!}
{mimi gave shiner a penguin toy from papa [penguins represent papa in our family because when papa was a kid he used to think that penguins were giant – like 6 feet tall – so it’s always been a joke with us]. shiner loved it!}
{i gave mike the book goodnight brew, “a parody for beer people.” and then mimi gave mike that cool growler with texas on it.}
{cuties.}
{new slippers from mom and dad!}
{love these two.}
fun times and i’m so thankful for this family. xoxo