As I mentioned before, the Holmes Family always celebrates Christmas on Christmas Eve but this year Omar had to work so we moved it to the day after Christmas. Nothing like making Christmas last a bit longer this year!! SO fun.
Dani and Omar, as most of you know, have 3 boys. Gabe who's 7, Lucas who's 4 and Evan who just turned 1 on the 29th of December. Talk about a lot of grandson's!! So for Christmas this year Dani and I decided that Momma and Poppa Holmes needed a new picture for their wall of ALL of their boys. This actually worked out perfectly because Momma also thought she would like to get a picture of her boys and not only arranged for the photo but also bought their PJ's (LOL). So a few weeks ago, we showed up with our boys in pj's and Matthew started clicking away. One of the shots made it on to Momma & Poppa Holmes' Christmas card and our favorite made it on to their wall. It was a great surprise and wonderful memory!
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| Evan (1), Lucas (4), Jackson (3 months) & Gabe (7) |
Another great moment came from Grammy and Poppa and the giving of chairs to Evan and Jackson. Grammy and Poppa started a few years ago with giving the boys chairs on their first Christmas. Both Gabe and Lucas have these wonderful chairs with their names on them. You know the chairs I'm talking of... the Pottery Barn ones. So this year with it being both Evan and Jackson's first Christmas the search began. Unfortunately, Momma couldn't find the chairs she wanted, so instead she decided that the two younger boys would have different chairs. Talk about cute!!
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| Just kickin it in their chairs!! |
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| Dani with Jackson and Evan |
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| Gabe opening his book |
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| Lucas opening a Wii Game |
As always, it was a wonderful day spent at the Holmes house celebrating Christmas, love and of course the reason for it all, our Lord! We are SO incredibly blessed this year!! Last year at this time, Evan had just been born and was still in the hospital (yes he was a premi, hard to believe, LOL) and Matthew and I didn't even know we were pregnant. So much has changed in just a short 12 months. We've had amazing things happen in our life and we have so much to be thankful for.
"Everyday may not be great, but there is something great in everyday".... I think that is going to be my motto for 2011!! Finding the great in EVERYDAY!! Here's to an amazing and wonderful 2011, may we all take the time and enjoy watching the world through the eye's of a child for they see only wonder and delight.
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| My Delight |
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| My Wonder |
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| My Awe |
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