Christmas 2011

To start out the Christmas season, the girls have always gotten together to have a cookie and ornament swap party. This year plans changed at the last minute, so our group was a little smaller than in years past. One thing that we learned this year is that it is getting more crowded with little ones! We would sit down to start working on cookies and a baby would need feeding or be crying or just want attention. It was definitely a lively time! We all enjoyed the time together and look forward to having more little ones running around next year. Notice baby Hannah Claire that will be partying with us next year!

For the past three Christmas', we have been running from one place to another on Christmas Day. This year we were able to spread out our Christmas celebrations. We only had one Christmas get together a day starting on Friday and ending on Monday. It was really nice to get to chill out at every get together and not feel rushed to get from one place to another. It was even more fun because this was the first Christmas that the Claud's have had a little one to spoil. Granted Boone was only 3 months at the time, but it was still a nice change to our Christmas. At the Ellis Christmas, we had a crazy hat theme to our Dirty Santa exchange. It was so stinking hilarious! Here are a few pictures from our Christmas gatherings!


The Ellis Family Crazy Hat Christmas


Christmas Morning 2011






Farmer Sam and Tennessee White Trash Holly
(That really is what my hat says!)




These hats were the hit of the party! Grandma Ellis rocked it!

Christmas always seems to come and go so quickly, but it really seemed to this year. Even though it flew by, we all still enjoyed laughing and eating until we couldn't breathe!