Christmas Week!

We started our week off with Christmas with the Emerson's. They got to our house Saturday morning and other than getting groceries we didn't leave. We kept ourselves busy with making gingerbread houses..

 Making cookies for Santa...

 And opening presents Sunday morning. Drew woke up to a new set of drums from Tim, Dessa, Grey and the girls. This drum set is the real deal! I don't think any of us realized how "for real" they were until Tim and Andy put them together. So far, we love it! He plays them in moderation and he actually has a pretty good beat that makes it less obnoxious!

 We also made a big dinner for Sunday night and my parents joined us too!

 After dinner, the neighborhood carolers stopped by. It was my first time to experience carolers at my door and they did great!

On Monday morning, this crew came with us to our big ultrasound for the gender reveal of baby #2! We are having another BOY!! Ross Henry - Ross is my Dad's middle name and Henry is my Papa's name. Andy and I found out together at my 16 week appointment and didn't tell anyone until we had the big ultrasound with our family. Sweet moment with just the two of us and another sweet moment with some of our closest family members in there with us! I should have turned the flash on to get a better picture, so I'll label for future reference! 

Andy, Halle, Drew, Cassie, Sidney, Mom, Dessa, Tim

 First family of 4 picture!

 I still have Drew's 12 week ultrasound picture. Drew is on the left and Ross Henry is on the right. From these two pictures, it doesn't look like they have the same profile, but I love looking at the side by side comparison.

 I knew the house would be crazy Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, so we did a little pre-cleaning. Drew literally mopped the entire living room and then helped vacuum after that. He is too good!

 We had a Christmas Eve surprise visit from Nedra. She brought Drew all sorts of goodies and he loved every minute of it!

After Nedra left, we decided to let Drew open his presents and stocking from us and save the Santa gifts for Christmas morning. He was so cute this year! After each present that he opened, he wanted to open the box and play with it right then. It was nice that he was taking his time and really appreciative and excited about each gift, but we were also a little antsy for him to open all of the gifts. That night his two favorite gifts were probably the remote control car and the camera. 

 When he unwrapped this present and saw a snowman on the box he said "oh! this is a frosty the snowman!"...

 We set out (leftover) cookies for Santa...

 Busted eating Santa's cookies!

 Christmas morning he woke up to a guitar, an ipad mini and a Santa sack full of miscellaneous fun stuff! I thought the guitar I ordered was similar to the one he had at Halloween (that he broke trying to fix), but this pitiful thing turned out to be such a dud! I felt so bad! He enjoyed it for a little bit and then kept saying "this doesn't work" and somehow the strings have already come off of it... good grief!

Later that morning, we went to my parents house for Christmas. Last family of 3 picture on Christmas!

 

 Drew was spoiled rotten and hit the jackpot with his new balancing bike from my parents! That was hands down his favorite gift that day. We haven't got to test it outside too much yet, but he gets the concept when he practices inside and is pretty good so far!

 Mom made Drew and Marlowe their own little place setting for lunch - so cute!

 After Christmas with my parents, we headed to Berryville for Christmas with Andy's grandma. Drew was spoiled there too! Building towers with Grandpa Bob and trucks with Uncle Mark...

 Having a snack and taking it easy for a little bit....

 After we finished Christmas in Berryville, we headed to Chimes for Christmas on the mountain with the rest of my family. My Uncle Larry brought his tractor over and took Drew for his first ride. He was on cloud nine! When he took him in the field to the cows, he said Drew sang Old McDonald Had a Farm... Ha!

 We were home all day Saturday taking down Christmas and cleaning out the play room. Drew was exhausted and spent the majority of Saturday night on the couch. Look how big he looks here!

 We ended the week with a play date with Drew's cousin Tate. These two are 2 months apart and have the same level of energy! Non-stop, all boy, all the time...

 I think it is safe to say for both Andy and me that this was our favorite Christmas so far. It was so fun watching Drew truly experience all of it and understand it for the first time. He talked about Santa, but I could never tell if he truly thought it was actually Santa that brought him the Christmas morning gifts. He knew that it was Jesus' birthday and sang the birthday song to him early that morning, he knew we were giving gifts and receiving gifts and seemed to really appreciate every single thing he got. And he also knew and loved that we were spending such good quality time with our families. Sweet memories were made this year and I know all three of us will never forget them!