Christmas In Covington

I've finally downloaded my Christmas pictures. I was awful at taking pictures. We were too busy soaking up our family and friends to take pictures. Anyway, we went home for 4 days over Christmas. Our tradition the past few years is to stay put wherever we live for Christmas because of the complexity of having Santa deliver gifts somewhere else. However, we made an exception this year since Jason had off of work and we wanted to introduce Jude to the family. We stayed at Jason's parent's house. We got lots of visiting in with them and even got to visit with Jason's sister and her husband. They are expecting they're first born at the end of January! We're going to be an aunt and uncle!!! Yay! We went to the Heap Christmas Eve, spent Christmas morning with Jason's family, then went to another Heap gathering Christmas day afternoon. Let me tell you...it warms my heart to see my boys playing with their cousins (really my cousins and some are my cousin's children...but they're young...so my kids just LOVE them all). I know they feel so special being from a large family (my dad comes from a family of 9 children). One time we left one of the Heap functions when Jack was around 5...he asked, "are ALL of those people my family?" Like the kid in Willie Wonka finding out the WHOLE chocolate factory was going to be his! This trip was much needed for my big guys...as much as it was needed for me. Here are some pictures.


Jason's aunt arranged for some family friends to add us to their Christmas caroling tour around Covington. They were amazing! It felt like we were in a movie. It was so festive and fun!


These pics of Christmas morning were awful. I fed Jude in the early morning hours...when I couldn't fall back asleep, I watched a tutorial on Pinterest on how to take great Christmas morning pics in dim light. Well, mine turned out not so great. :)





Jack got the thing he consistently asked Santa for...Gears! Gears! Gears! Santa hoped it was the right thing he described...and it WAS!


When we asked the boys what their favorite gift was....it was EXTRA! The gum! Go figure!


Jude was enjoying being wrapped with ribbon...or not!


My littlest angel of all!


Brothers forever!


Christmas morning brunch with Jason's fam.





And Poppy (Jason's dad) and Jude topped of the morning with a nap. So sweet! We had a great time...but when it was all said and done, it was good to be back home.