Christmas with the 'Rents!

We did it!

We finally conned family into coming for a holiday ;)

Cameron's parents arrived late Thursday night, and we were so pleased to have them here for the week! We stayed up chatting and updating each other on the latest goings on, then off to bed!

Friday, we had a late morning, then went out to brunch. We ladies did some last minute grocery shopping while the men cleaned our garage and built shelving to corral all of our quickly growing supply of out-grown baby things. I am SO EXCITED to have the garage back! (did I mention we've had a car in there that we donated last week? It hadn't been working for 4 years. Time to go, eh?) Now I can park the car out of the rain and frost. ahhhhh :)

Friday night, it was off to Chuck & Diana's house for a glorious turkey dinner. BACKSTORY: for those who don't know Chuck, he's Cameron's Dad's Boyfr...I mean best friend. They've known each other a VERY long time, and get together for all kinds of shenanigans when Bill comes to visit. We opened up our Christmas Eve presents at home and all received our new Christmas Jammies!

Christmas morning was so nice! Very laid back, cinnamon rolls in the oven, baby/grandma snuggling time kinda morning. Everybody got great presents (including the whopper cameron surprised me with...an iMAC!) and it was such a fun day.

We spent the rest of the week enjoying each other's company, living life with no schedules, laughing and eating. Boy, did we eat!

Tuesday night, we headed up to Clayton to Cameron's cousin Heather's house for a family get-together. Lynette & her two sisters and their families all came and we played with the kiddies all night! We had another great meal (EATING! mmmm), then enjoyed the annual ornament exchange. So fun to catch up with them all, and to finally meet Cameron's Aunt Sharon. We know each other very well, but hadn't met yet! She's a joy!

Now, as I sit here typing, Bill & Lynette are sitting on the couch reading and I'm realizing they head home tomorrow morning. :( We so rarely get to be with family I really take advantage of the time we have, but it still feels too soon. We loved having them here, and Miles LOVES his Grandma & Grandpa so very much. He likes to mimic Grandma's sighs and he steals Grandpa's glasses the second he's in his arms. What a wonderful week.

:)