Thursday, January 8, 2009

Christmas and New Years

We had an eventful Christmas season this year. We spent the Tuesday night before Christmas with Brandon's family eating dinner and opening gifts. On Christmas Eve we had the traditional Stafford/Manning/Hill Christmas with our gift exchange, food indulgence, and karaoke. This year Brandon's grandma joined us and we celebrated her 80th birthday. It was a lot of fun! On Christmas Day Brandon and I opened gifts from each other and just hung out. I got tons of stuff and discovered that he spoils me way too much! That afternoon we went with my mom to see "Benjamin Button" and that night we went and looked at Christmas lights...which Brandon hates but takes me every year to be nice. :) The day after Christmas we hung out at my parents house with Kelly and Lexie and my grandparents. We ate a lot of food, played games, sang karaoke, and played the Wii. It was great! On the 30th, I flew with my parents to Alabama to see my grandparents for a week. It was good to be with them since I haven't seen them since June. My grandmother has been very sick lately and was recently hospitalized but is slowly recovering and we had a good time taking care of her and were excited that she was able to get out with us a couple of times to do things! Now it is back to the real world! I hate returning from the holidays...it is so sad! We are trying to get back into the swing of things and beginning to prepare for Lillee's arrival! Not too much longer!! :) Enjoy the pictures below!

Brandon's dad was super excited about the globe we got him!

Lillee's Christmas gift for her nursery!

Brandon singing, "What's New Pussycat" to his Aunt Tina :)


Uncle Dave and Bridget singing...Luke and Ryan provided the choreography!


Grandma opening her birthday presents~ Happy Birthday Grandma!

Mom and Brandon karaoking!

Dad jamming on Guitar Hero...what you can't see well in this pic is the head bob...he was rocking!

Holly was sick of Christmas and was humoring us with this picture.

Even Pa learned to bowl on the Wii!

A view from my plane window on the way home from Alabama! Isn't it beautiful?!




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