sunday before christmas

we had to do the obligatory christmas sunday best photo! it was so much more fun this year with little rockwell. i mean, come on. that bow tie is killing me!

oh christmas tree

rockwell's first christmas tree experience was a success! we got the perfect little tree and it lights up our little space beautifully. even though we are still at my parents house, i like the idea of having our own little family christmas together in our room. i am so excited!

christmas morning

christmas was so fun this year. brylee was so stinking cute opening her gifts. it was so much fun to watch her. we all just giggled and admired her. we had breakfast, opened gifts and then we all headed off to spend the afternoons with our in laws. it was such a nice and easy day. it's getting better and better as we focus on the next generation as opposed to ourselves.

to end the day we went to see the secret life of walter mitty with the rex's. it was SUCH a good movie. the feel good ending just made my day. it definitely did not disappoint!

stout family christmas party & christmas eve

all of the stout aunts and uncles and cousins came over for a christmas party the weekend before christmas. it was so much fun to see everyone and spend time together. there are so many little kids now, it gets nice and loud and kind of messy, but it's really fun to see the next generation play together.

oh and we also told our family the gender of the baby at the party!

for christmas eve we had a smaller group come over. we had our traditional christmas dinner, read the nativity story and sang christmas carols. i just love christmas. we had our own little christmas tree in our bedroom and it was so fun to get everything ready before we went to sleep!