I can't believe Christmas has come and gone for another year...it's kind of sad. Here is a rundown of how Christmas with the Hamberlin's went this year!
We were at my parent's house in Richfield for Christmas with most of my family!
Here we are chipper and ready to go on Christmas morning...we were actually the first ones up (besides my Dad and the dogs.) I had a crazy pregnancy dream the night before that no one woke us up and we missed Christmas and I was hysterical about it (in my dream and in real life)...you can be sure I wasn't going to let that happen for real so we were up and ready to go at 7:30!
Let's back up a little bit...again more with the Christmas traditions. Since there are always alot of people at our Christmas (15 this year) Santa always fills our stocking and places them on all of the couches and chairs aroud the family room. Each married sibling has a couch/loveseat and all of my single siblings get a chair! This year we got upgraded to the loveseat! Here are our stockings before we opened them.
We also have another tradition in our family...all of the presents that Santa brings go into a huge pile in the middle of the floor in the family room and we sit at our places around the pile. We take turns opening presents youngest to oldest...one at a time. By the looks of this pile and knowing that 15 people opened these presents one at a time...you can imagine that it takes us a couple of hours to open presents. Then we open the presents under the tree...those presents are from members of the family to other members of the family...like to Paxton from his cousins. So there is another hour of presents! 
Here is Paxton anxiously waiting to open up his stocking...actually I think he was more focused on his bottle than anything else!
Paxton was totally loving the idea of opening presents...for about the first 5 then he kind of lost interest. Luckily his first stocking present was cheese puffs so we could bribe him to come open another present by giving him those cheese puffs! What a healthy breakfast! 
The aftermath of unwrapping is pretty amazing...we also are not allowed to throw away any paper, boxes, or bags until the end so it gets to be a pretty big pile of paper! I think by the time we got done cleaning up we filled 10 big garbage bags with just wrapping paper!
I think Paxton liked playing in the leftover paper more than opening his presents or playing with any of his new toys!
Our last family Christmas tradition is that once the unwrapping is done and breakfast is over we take all of our presents and pile them up on our bed for a picture!
Let's back up a little bit...again more with the Christmas traditions. Since there are always alot of people at our Christmas (15 this year) Santa always fills our stocking and places them on all of the couches and chairs aroud the family room. Each married sibling has a couch/loveseat and all of my single siblings get a chair! This year we got upgraded to the loveseat! Here are our stockings before we opened them.
We also have another tradition in our family...all of the presents that Santa brings go into a huge pile in the middle of the floor in the family room and we sit at our places around the pile. We take turns opening presents youngest to oldest...one at a time. By the looks of this pile and knowing that 15 people opened these presents one at a time...you can imagine that it takes us a couple of hours to open presents. Then we open the presents under the tree...those presents are from members of the family to other members of the family...like to Paxton from his cousins. So there is another hour of presents! 
Here is Paxton anxiously waiting to open up his stocking...actually I think he was more focused on his bottle than anything else!
Paxton was totally loving the idea of opening presents...for about the first 5 then he kind of lost interest. Luckily his first stocking present was cheese puffs so we could bribe him to come open another present by giving him those cheese puffs! What a healthy breakfast! 
The aftermath of unwrapping is pretty amazing...we also are not allowed to throw away any paper, boxes, or bags until the end so it gets to be a pretty big pile of paper! I think by the time we got done cleaning up we filled 10 big garbage bags with just wrapping paper!
I think Paxton liked playing in the leftover paper more than opening his presents or playing with any of his new toys!
Our last family Christmas tradition is that once the unwrapping is done and breakfast is over we take all of our presents and pile them up on our bed for a picture!Here is Paxton's big haul for this year! He received tons of clothes, books, movies, and toys. His favorite thing to play with so far is those 2 cars in the center. You push a button on them and they play old hip hop songs like Funkytown. He goes crazy and gets dancing everytime he plays with them!
Andy and I made off with quite a load. I received some much needed maternity clothes, a griddle, and a new hot chocolate maker. Andy got a shotgun, a new coat, colonge, and a huge first aid kit!
Tegan also got some adorable new clothes but I totally forgot to take a picture!
Thanks again Mom and Dad for letting us come down and add to the chaos! We love spending Christmas with you guys and plan on making Christmas at your house one of our favorite family traditions!
Andy and I made off with quite a load. I received some much needed maternity clothes, a griddle, and a new hot chocolate maker. Andy got a shotgun, a new coat, colonge, and a huge first aid kit!
Tegan also got some adorable new clothes but I totally forgot to take a picture!Thanks again Mom and Dad for letting us come down and add to the chaos! We love spending Christmas with you guys and plan on making Christmas at your house one of our favorite family traditions!
PS. Thanks for spoiling us like usual!!
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