Christmas in Cali!

This was the first year we missed our family Christmas's, so that was a little sad, but we were very fortunate to have Aaron here for the holidays this year, as last year he was deployed. It was also very different not to have a white Christmas (and 65+ degree weather to top it off!), but kinda nice! Aiden had a lot of fun getting all geared up for Santa to come, he understood what was going on and got soooo excited! Here we are cooking sugar cookies for Santa:)

The kids after Christmas Eve mass.

Our family picture (did this with a self timer...not bad.).

Telling Olivia what happens on Christmas Eve:)

After Santa came:)

Christmas morning...the first thing we let Aiden open was his chair from Grandma and Grandpa Flaws...when my mom was here for Olivia's birth, Aiden pretended he was in his "thinking chair" like Blues Clues, so my mom had to get his own:) LOL!

Racing set from Great-grandpa Flaws! (not sure what the face was for here!)

Aiden was very excited to get his football!!! (even though he already has like 5 others, he is still CrAzY about football!)

Gotta love the Hawkeye shirt from Aunt Sarah:)

Aiden got a punching bag (to tackle) & a football helmet...he started playing right away!

We also got him a basketball hoop, I was holding Olivia and just shot a quick picture and got him shooting the ball and snapping his wrist afterwards....I about died!!! What a natural:) LOL

We had a great Christmas....we hope everyone had a great Christmas as well and Happy New Year!!!