Our Christmas

Traditionally, we spend Christmas Eve with the McLain side of our family. Jeremy has 5 older sisters, and as many as can make it head to his parents' house with their families. This year everyone was there but his sister from Utah. It was pretty crazy, lots of cousins, lots of presents, and lots of fun!
The McLain Tree
Aunt Dannell and her boys bought for our family (we draw names) and she got Tucker a computer so he can practice being like Daddy. He totally loves it!
Maeli loved all the attention from all the family!

By the end of the afternoon we were all pretty "Tuckered" out.
We tried something different this year. Normally we're back and forth a lot between our parents' houses (its about 45min) and its always stressful and tense. We divided our days up and did McLain pre-Christmas and Brame post-Christmas. It was much nicer and felt a little like vacation. So after the McLain festivities were wrapped up and we said our good byes, we headed to my parents' house.
We had to get our stockings organized before we could go to bed. Jeremy and I only stuff each other's stockings, although the gifts seem to ooze out of them every year.
Maeli got to help G'ma Terry do the cinnamon for the pull-a-parts we always have for Christmas breakfast. Notice how gussied up she is thanks to the dress-up stuff from Aunt Dannell.
Tucker could hardly wait for Maeli to wake up so that we could start the party.
Tucker also thought that everything cousin Roy got was way more exciting than anything Tucker got.
Dad and Maeli both so excited to start unwrapping!
And we still all ended up pretty Tuckered out.