When the boys woke up that morning - they found lots of fun little critter friends outside. Ryan's brother - Dave loves birds so he has many many bird feeders and even puts out corn for the squirrels - so there were so many out that morning - they boys were thoroughly entertained!
For several years now, we have been doing our "Family
Christmas" around New Years Eve time. We've been rotating who's home we
do it at, so first it was Milwaukee, then our home in Arkansas, and now
we're onto Minneapolis. So since we were all ready to have our
Christmas, we did it first thing Saturday morning! Something I
absolutely love about "Stearle Family Christmas" is that traditionally,
we open these enormous goofy stockings and then we do presents after...
all while drinking coffee and mimosas, eating a yummy breakfast and
eating crazy amounts of candy. It usually lasts all morning into the
afternoon. So much fun! I LOVE it. We have been drawing names for
stockings for quite a long time too - and that just makes the stockings
that much more fun. Stocking gifts are a mixture of cool, unique items
and goofy silly items and also your practical stuff.... The idea being
that you pick up things here and there throughout the whole year.
Totally fun! For the last 2 years, I've made Jackson a stocking too - a
very very very very small stocking but just something he can do while
we open ours... This year, he got so excited about each thing in his
stocking that after we were all done, he hadn't even finished his
stocking! He was busy playing and eating chocolate... Awh...
Christmas. :)
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