Virginia Christmas - Part 2

After having Christmas morning together, we headed to Granny's for our traditional Christmas breakfast, attempted to go church, and ended the day at Grandma and Granddaddy Hockman's.

Caleb loved the singing and dancing decorations
Granny set out for the kids.

He quickly learned how to turn them on and off.

The worst part was that he'd want to play all three at once.
I was about ready to hide them, but how can you take
away such fun entertainment on Christmas day?

Granny cooked a little bit of about every
breakfast food you can imagine like usual.

Caleb thought the ham was pretty good.

Dad was in charge of carving the rest of the ham.

One food we have without fail every year is oyster stew.

Since this year Christmas landed on a Sunday, we arrived at
Granny's extra early before the rest of our family so we could make
it to church. This was nice in some ways because we were able to
have one-on-one time to sit and enjoy with her. On the other hand,
we missed seeing everyone!

Caleb sat down to watch a little TV after breakfast. When we
brought in this enormous package, rather than be thrilled by the
size or trying to rip the paper off, Caleb got up and sat in front of
the box because it was blocking his show.

Finally, Dave helped him to unwrap his easel from Granny.

By then, a few more people had shown up right
before we had to get ready to leave.

We changed Caleb from his reindeer sleeper into his
handsome church clothes, including some sharp new
black dress shoes from Na Na.

Unfortunately, the wore out little booger never made
it to church. Dave got to attend the service while
Caleb and I went home to nap.

A good nap put this dapper fella in a good mood for
our next stop - Grandma Nora Ann and Granddaddy Eddie's.

More presents!

This Thomas tent was a huge hit.

Unfortunately, it tore within about five minutes of
play so we took it back. Hopefully we'll find another
one soon that will hold up better.

Cole, who also looked very handsome in his
Christmas attire, enjoyed opening presents too.

After everyone opened their presents, we had a photo shoot
like normal. It was difficult to get a decent picture
with a wiggly toddler this year.

Although everyone else had finished opening gifts, Caleb,
who'd taken a break to play, had several more to open.

One special gift from Grandma and Grandaddy was a
handmade tractor trailer like Pop Pop's trucks with pipe
to haul attached to the back.

It was a full day but we didn't feel rushed, pretty much everything went smoothly, and it was one of the best Christmas I can remember. :)