Christmas Without a Tree

Without any family in town it was another quiet Christmas, well, as quiet as it can be with a new puppy in the house!

We had our typical Christmas Eve dinner of snacks (a hold over from our Douglasville days when we would spend the evening with our neighbors), including shrimp, cheese and crackers! The nice thing about this spread is that we can eat it the next day for lunch between our big breakfast and dinner!

It was an odd year too because we had no Christmas tree. So we just used this side of the fireplace and built-in's. The boys seemed to like it, which helped. The upside was that it really made cleaning up after the holiday's easy (no ornament and tree to take down!!).

Thanks to my creative neighbor, this was our Christmas tree this year!

So blessed to have so many good friends in our lives. I love getting the cards and seeing how much everyone has grown and changed over the year. I especially love getting cards that included notes on how the year was. I always tell myself I'm going to do this each year and then December comes along and I feel too rushed. But there is always next year (or this year), right?

After our other tradition of driving around and looking at Christmas lights we got into jammies and got things ready for Santa and his reindeer. Wyatt made reindeer food at school so we took it outside for him to sprinkle on the grass.

Then it was time to get cookies and milk ready to set out.

Christmas morning and all the gifts!

I love seeing the boys faces when they catch sight of it all.

Let the craziness begin!

I think this was his third gift opened and that was it - he spent all day with this toy while his other presents sat for several days.

Wyatt was worn out by the late afternoon/early evening.

We hope you had as wonderful a Christmas as we did!!

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