LaShay & Steve: Bankhead Christmas Part 1

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Bankhead Christmas Part 1

Welp, Christmas is officially over for us this year. We had it 3 weekends in a row! This past weekend was Christmas with my side of the family. We went to Houston this year to my mom's side of the family Christmas celebration. I'm gonna break this blog down into three parts because I have so many pics! (Are you surprised?... if you don't like all the pics, I'm sorry... but I do it for my own memories to come back to later!)

So, we got down there on New Year's day (which is why Steve and I didn't celebrate at midnight!- we had to get up early to travel). Friday during the day it was just my immediate family there so we could do "our" Christmas with each other. Below are pics of that get together...

Talk about hard trying to get all of them to look at the camera at the same time... I had my camera on "burst" mode and this is the best I got...

Skip to the "after we opened presents" part of the day... we all just hung out while the kids played and ran around.

That evening is when everyone else came over for the "big family gift exchange". The kids went "caroling" with B-Mom and Pop... this is them singing to us...

And then coming in out of the cold when they were done... it was so cute!!!

We gave Julia and Mallory each a little chest with princess dress up clothes in it... jewelry, shoes, crowns, dresses, everything. Well, while the adults (the men) had their Christmas exchange, the ladies dressed up the kids in some of those costumes!!!