Haley Christmas

Our first Christmas celebration was with the Haley side of the family. We spent Saturday-Monday in the Haute enjoying everyone's company. Matt, Taryn and Gabe couldn't make it, but everyone else was there. It was a nice and low key couple of days. It was really nice to be able to spend some time with Joe since he's leaving for Africa in a couple of weeks and we won't see him until August (sadness). On Saturday night we went to Aunt Kates for the extended family Christmas party. It was fun and crazy as always. For some reason it seemed like there were even more people there than usual. Sunday we had a nice dinner with grandmother and exchanged gifts with her (we also snuck in opening a few extra gifts despite dad's protests ). The picture of Lily vacuuming cracks me up - Cinderella cleaning :) Then on Christmas Eve we opened the rest of the presents and went to mass. Lily was very distracted by the manger scene at Church and kept wanting to go up and see it. Overall, though, they weren't too bad at mass this time (especially considering that there is no cry room option at St. Ben's).