A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

The Christmas holiday this year was spent at my parent's house in Yorba Linda. Most of my siblings all live in Southern California. I have one lonesome sister who moved to Utah with her family a few years ago (lame) but everyone else is around here. The original plan was for the whole gang that lives in CA to get together for Christmas Eve then let those who wanted to do their own Christmas go back to their own homes and reunite mid-morning Christmas day. My sister's family was going to come Christmas night and then we were going to spend 5 wonderful days together.

I ended up being "naughty" and coming almost a week before. My mom didn't like this because she still had tons to do and wasn't planning on anyone distracting her. (I love to be a distraction ;)  I then became the "magnet" to all of my siblings and everyone slowly started trickling in to stay at my parent's house before they were supposed to. And on Christmas Eve, my sister and her husband and their 5 kids surprised us showing up a day early! That made quite the party and no one ended up going home for their "own" Christmas. It made me so happy!

For the rest of the time, the cousins played non-stop all day and all night. I don't think they had one good, nutritious meal from Christmas Eve on. The moment they opened their stockings, it was a 5 day sugar high. It kind of horrified me but we just acted like it wasn't happening and let that one go. We also got together with dear family friends that are like family to us on multiple occasions and had a ball together like we always do.

{It's a shame I have so few photos but I almost never have photos of my family together because no one stops talking long enough to take a picture. If it wasn't for me, there would be very little documentation of the Pugmire posterity!} 

It was a particularly special Christmas since we have two preggos in my family this year. My sister Shalice and my sister-in-law, Dayana. We had so much fun fantasizing and talking about the future babies to come in 2016. It was also Naomi's first Christmas and most likely, one of the last "cousins Christmas" we will have in the near future since everyone is making plans to have Christmas morning at their own homes. It makes me terribly sad but I guess it has to happen sometime.  Although, knowing my family, we have a really hard time not being together. So we will see if we stick to "our plans." 

I'll never forget Carter's face spreading food for the reindeer all over my parent's front lawn and of course you can't beat the looks on the kid's faces Christmas morning. 

A very merry Christmas indeed! 

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Oh, and one morning, I woke up to this picture as the wallpaper on my phone.

My niece and brother-in-law do this to me every time we are together, like every time. They think it's hilarious. It is kind of funny... I'll give them that. The picture is still the wallpaper on my phone. Every time I look at it, I think how I need to change it but here we are 6 weeks later!