We had a mini Christmas celebration early this weekend at our house. Zack and Matt (brothers-in-law) and Thomas had tickets to see Joe Bonamassa at The Well on Saturday night so we decided to make it a family weekend and Tara and Ashley came with our nieces! Since we didn't already have plans to be all together on Christmas, we decided that we would use this weekend to celebrate together.
Matt, Tara and Leece got here on Friday night and Ashley flew in on Saturday (she had an event to attend in Greenville, NC on Friday night) and Zack drove in Saturday afternoon with Taylor and Anna.
On Saturday, we went to MaSha's house for lunch and then hung out at our house for the rest of the afternoon. The big guys left around 5:30 to go downtown for dinner and drinks before the concert and all the girls and the little guys had dinner at home and ordered pizza and had a low-key evening.
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Leece checking out MaSha's
Christmas tree |
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| MaSha and Stokes |
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| William, Stokes and Ryan |
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Stokes, William and Ryan
BTW, I took about a million of these pictures and these
two are the only halfway decent ones. Stokes and William
kept trying to crawl away! |
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| MaSha and Ryan |
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| Taylor and Ryan |
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| Stokes taking a few steps for Da-da |
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| Stokes visiting the dogs |
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| Tara and Leece |
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| Thomas swinging William |
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| Ashley with Ryan |
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| MaSha and Leece |
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| The big boys before the concert |
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| The big boys and the little boys |
Sunday morning was our big celebration with brunch and opening presents and stockings. It was mayhem but really, really fun! My boys still didn't really understand opening presents and stockings, but they love all their new stuff. We all enjoyed getting to see Leece, Taylor and Anna open their gifts!
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| Peery triplets in their Christmas PJs |
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| Ryan |
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| William |
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| Stokes |
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| Anna and Taylor with their hot cocoa |
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| Our brunch spread |
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We had egg and sausage breakfast casserole, grits casserole,
fruit, sausage balls and honeybun cake |
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| GranO and MaSha chatting |
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| Anna playing with Ryan |
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| MaSha, Ryan and GranO |
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| Stokes walking towards MaSha |
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MaSha juggling Ryan and Stokes - she's gotten very
good at holding multiple babies! |
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| COUSINS! |
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| Ryan and Taylor |
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| Presents time! |
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| MaSha helping William open his gift |
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| Kids opening presents |
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| Tara helping Leece |
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MaSha and William. His expression
here cracks me up! |
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| Stokes was modeling his new winter jacket |
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Leece LOVED her new chair that is
just her size |
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| Big girls with their new robes |
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| More gifts! |
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| GranO and Stokie |
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| Stokes checking out his handmade wooden truck |
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| Ryan with his stocking |
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| William with his stocking (kind of) |
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| Stokes with his stocking |
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| I was helping Stokes play with his new toy from MaSha |
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| Present opening chaos! So fun |
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| Ryan with his Mama |
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| MaSha and all her grandkids |
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| Taylor, William and GranO |
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| Stokes and me |
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| Our family :) |
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| Matt, Leece and Tara |
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| Tara and Leece |
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| All the girls |
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| Ashley and Leece |
Oh, Katie, it's a new generation, with new traditions, with absolutely beautiful children. I am so happy that you have this wonderful family!
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