Christmas with the Carney's!

Yay!  Christmas has finally arrived.  My favorite part of the holidays is getting together with all our family and getting to spend time together.  I love hosting the holidays!  This year was set up pretty good with the day that Christmas fell.  My parents, my brother, and my grandma were all able to make the trip to Charlotte for an extra long weekend.  I was excited to spend a day baking with my mom and grandma for a change.  Of course, the weekend always goes faster than we plan, and I wouldn't say we got to spend a day baking as I had planned, but we still had tons of yummy food, and it was nice to have some extra days with my family this year!

While making their gingerbread house, my crazy kids came up with this idea to make themselves Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer.  How do they come up with these ideas all on their own?  They thought it was the funniest thing ever!

Everyone was pretty excited about opening gifts this year.. Ryan included. Please note: The kids did not do gift opening over more than one day. My Grandma got them new shirts and they put them on halfway through opening (hence the change in clothes).

 

 We continued the tradition of handprint gifts this year for Grandparents.  This year I did plates and put them in a plate hanger.  I love the way they turned out!  I did different colors for each Grandparents to try and match their kitchens!

 Love his expression in this picture!

Uncle Jeremy got Justin this Spiderman mask (with a glove).  We came up with a super good idea to have Katelynn be Ladybug Girl, Justin be Spiderman, and Uncle Jeremy wear our black witch cape to be Batman.  Sadly, we couldn't find the cape that day.  But no worries, Uncle Jeremy, we have found the cape and will resume the superheroes game next time you are here.. with pictures of course!  :)

 Ryan seemed to think that the American Girl Doll stuff was just his size for him to ride! 

I can't believe our first Christmas celebration has come to an end so quickly!!

Great-Grandma and three of her Great-Grandkids!