Christmas festivities 2014

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. We had an awesome celebration with our family. Christmas festivities are my favorite. This is always the holiday I looked forward to the most.This year was awesome since it was Bean's first Christmas. Tman enjoyed himself a lot and Jbird was not very impressed but overall everyone had a great time.

Christmas cards are one of my favorite things to get each year. I actually display them all year long to enjoy them as long as I can :). I put them on the door that leads to the garage so that I see those lovely pics everyday. We've hosted Christmas every year for the past 4 years and each year we take a family picture. My sister always gets me this awesome picture frame with the year and I display them as part of my Christmas decorations.

Our house on Christmas eve

 And a close up of the tree

We usually start celebrating in the morning and are later joined by my siblings in the afternoon for a family celebration. My mom usually spends the night with us since we have the kids. Hubby's parents didn't spend the night but they came in the morning to open presents with us.

Happy 1st Christmas to my Bean who has taken a few steps already by the way

 With my mom and the kids

  Our family pic, these are my favorite pajamas to date

 Me and my personal santa :)

 With hubby's parents. I love the chaos of Christmas morning

After the pictures, we opened a few gifts, the boys were so happy 

Helping grandad put stuff together

The boys all got bikes and let me tell you they were a hit, here they are uncovering their bikes :)

Testing the bikes out

Bean loving his trike

Hubby helping Tman with his bike

We even took them outside for a test drive since it was not too cold

We came back inside and got ready for the afternoon. One of Tman's favorite gifts was a magic wand. He has been into magic stuff for a while and he recntly started watching the Harry Potter series with hubby. Well. I found this magic wand at home depot that could turn the Christmas tree on and off and it was a total hit

Well magic wand turn this tree on :). Tman was really into it for about an hour then he broke the wand.

Opening presents is a tiring job. Tman and grandad passed out on the couch

Cooking with hubby's mom

My mom and brother with my niece

Opening presents with Bean

Everyone was busy opening gifts

My brother was excited about his gifts

My sisters posing by the tree

My family loves pictures

And of course a picture of all of us that celebrated together. Can't wait to put this in my 2014 frame :)

Hubby's sister surprised us all when she showed up later that evening. She didn't tell us that she was coming. Tman was so excited to see his auntie K.

And I of course made them take a family pic because that's how I roll

And call me crazy but I had to clean up before going to bed. My mom passed out with Bean in a clean space, now I can go to bed peacefully :)

Our Christmas celebration was awesome this year. 5th annual hosting and looking forward to many more. I hope you had a great time celebrating with your family too.