This Christmas season was one of my favorites we've ever had as family! The boys were at such great ages to enjoy all of the holiday festivities, and the magic was very alive in their eyes. We stayed around town this season, which was nice for a change. I always love going up to Dallas at some point during the holidays, but staying home this year, with James being in school, made for lots of time to get in all of the family Christmassy things we wanted to do. It's the little things that I love the most, like driving around looking at Christmas lights with hot chocolate and Christmas music, watching Christmas movies over and over, making Christmas cookies, etc. I also really enjoyed decorating our new house this year for Christmas. It was fun to figure out where to put everything and to make our first Christmas memories at our new house. We went to a neat Christmas concert at Homestead Heritage that was fantastic. It was free of charge, and then all of the women brought out their homemade goodies that were all incredible.
Everyone has their turn at baking cookies with Nana during the holidays. Jack joined in this year and had a blast making sugar cookies (my favorite!). James made reindeer cookies and was very proud of them. :) Elizabeth and I went over one night and helped Mom make lots of different kinds of cookies and made plates for people. This is always a lot of fun, and there is always lots of laughter!
We all took turns passing around adorable, sweet John David. He is one of the best babies with the sweetest disposition!
James had his first Elementary School field trip to the Mayborn Museum! I was so impressed with what they did with the kids. In one of the rooms, they acted out the Nativity story, and it turned out really neat! James was one of the three wise men. It is so sweet to see little Kindergartners acting out this story.
They had pajama day at school, which James really enjoyed!
James' Christmas party at school
Our sweet neighbors put on a block Christmas party every year, and we really enjoyed it! The kids on our block are truly exceptionally neat kids of all ages, who made our boys feel very welcome and showed them a great time. We had yummy food, and Santa even stopped by to take pictures and talk to the kids!
Jack was shy around the above Santa, but he LOVED the below Santa decoration! It was cracking everyone up how he kept going over to hug and kiss him and just hang around him!
We had a great time on the 22nd of December having the whole family over to eat dinner at our house! I enjoyed having the first of many Christmastime meals in my new house in the dining room!
Christmas Eve at the Barnhills! We shared the name for our baby that we picked out with our family after dinner. Benjamin Carl Satterfield!
Christmas morning!!
The boys waiting to come out and see what Santa brought. James could hardly contain his excitement!
After opening Santa gifts, we headed over to Mom and Dad's for more Christmas fun!
James would not stop doing the Heisman pose, after RGIII won it. This RGIII jersey from the Barnhills was by far his favorite gift of Christmas. He wore it and slept in it for days!
Josh was super excited about the gun I got him for Christmas!
John David's first Christmas!
Josh went with my family to the Alamo Bowl to watch Baylor play, and he had a wonderful time! I stayed back with the boys and really enjoyed watching the game on TV with James. He is a great football watching date. :)
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