Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was spent with my Dad's side of the family at my Grandmother Mawmaw's house. We ate sub sandwiches and then commenced our gift opening. Dad and Little Bruce (that is what we called him when we were young because he is Bruce III) were the MC's and regulated the gift giving as usual. Addie ignored the "rules" and started passing out gifts, haha! We decided to do a PJ night so we'd all be comfortable. Once all gifts were opened, we played a round of Dirty Santa with fun socks and I have to say I am pretty darn pleased with my orange striped fuzzy slipper socks. We had a really great time and got some great gifts! I love our tradition of Christmas Eve with the Woody's, we always have a blast!

The headless bear is a funny story I had to document. Around 12 years back, Katie bought Mawmaw this bear for Christmas. This was when we would take our few dollars and Mom took us to the dollar store to pick out presents for our family. Katie, Scott, and I would excitedly shop around the dollar store, finding gifts for each person, and often came out with glass figurines. Mom has about a billion glass Santa's resulting from our shopping the the "tree". So we'd wrap up our gifts, and on Christmas Eve we'd meet at Mawmaw's for the Woody side of Christmas celebrations. Well APPARENTLY Mawmaw's got dropped at some point in time because Mawmaw opens her gift from Katie, pulls the bear from the box, and the head falls off and rolls across the floor!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! We all died laughing, almost peeing ourselves, and to this day, the bear sits in Mawmaw's living room on the TV, with his head propped on. We have a nice giggle about the headless bear each Christmas Eve.

Moving on...

Here is Addie opening her Ni Hao Kai-Lan gift from cousin Leo. (Leo is Bruce Leonard the IV). She was thrilled!

Addie presenting Leo with his first present...

Addie's fake smile

Addie opening her singing penguin from Great Grandmother Mawmaw. She loved it!

So she gave Mawmaw a sugar for it.

Then later that night Santa came to visit our house. Addie made out pretty good but Santa was a loser and forgot to fill her stocking that night, but luckily left the goodies at our house, so Addie got her stocking once we got home after celebrations Christmas Day. Oops.

Also notice our tree is once again leaning. This must be a tradition with us, because for the past three years it has leaned. This year we even bought a new tree stand to try to help things out as the tree always seems to be laying on the couch, and it helped some... but still crooked.