Ramsey Christmas

We headed over to my mom & dad's house to have Christmas with 41 (I think) of my closest relatives, and that wasn't even all of us! Seriously. :0) We were missing a niece & some nephews.

It's nice to all get together even though it is super crowded.

After lunch, we let the kids open their presents. Even though it is just the kids, (and my parents) it is still chaotic because there are so many of them!!

Our next activity is super fun. We make the kids clear out all of their stuff, and then we set all of the White elephant gifts in the middle of the room & go at it!!

There are some pretty funny gifts in that pile!!

Then we all just hang out enjoying each other. :0)

Another fun Christmas over & gone.

Decorating For Christmas!

We decorated for Christmas this past weekend. The kids all helped bring boxes up from the basement:

Riley helped get the lights sorted out:

Lily "helped" put the lights on the tree:

Lily & Riley waiting patiently to put their ornaments on: 

They each started with their favorite ornaments...

and then they were off in a mad dash to get their ornaments on the tree.

We had a few broken ornaments this year....
I don't know why they feel like it should be a race to put them on....

We got them all on though!! :0)

We have the rest of our decorations up, I have "my" tree up in the livingroom, and we have our outside lights up. We are all Christmas-y now!