We celebrated Christmas in 2011, and now that it's been 6 months, it's probably time to document it for posterity. This was on "on" year for the Wride clan. All of Adam's siblings plus their cute families descended on the Leesburg hub. We opted to spend several nights there as well (camped out in the basement) so we could join in the evening fun and games. It was a par-tay! There were a good 20 people in the house, 9 of whom were grand babies. That makes for a lot of presents, folks. I'm pretty sure Santa dumped the remaining packages of his sleigh when he got to this stop.
One of the Wride traditions that I am a BIG fan of is eating breakfast BEFORE going to see if Santa came. It keeps the campers happy. Candy for breakfast makes kiddos grumpy. Here are some cousins enjoying cinnamon rolls (my contribution this year), cereal, juice, and milk.
Getting the lineup ready. I think Emma and Ryan are trying to figure out who is taller. Sorry, folks, it's an age thing. Youngest to oldest...
Sadie made her way up front eventually, if I remember right. These were happy, excited cousins.
When we got upstairs, we discovered that Santa, in his wisdom, had set the stockings in the living room while the rest of the presents were in the family room. We had time to sort through the stocking goodies and then put everything on pause to head off for 9am church. While I did capture some video of the stocking fun, I'm afraid no still photos were clear enough to post. We'll have to jump to this fun picture of Emma at church in a fantastic dress my sister Celeste made her. She also made Christmas vests for my boys (and similar ensembles for all the nieces and nephews), but again in the craziness I didn't get a photo. I only have this one because I was helping Emma dress for family pictures, which took place on the lawn right after church (and before we opened any presents). The kids were remarkably good sports, and it was the only chance we had of getting ALL the Wride families in a photo together. Naps and departures would fall in rapid succession the remainder of Christmas Day.
Here are Maddie and Emma in their cute sweater dresses, provided by Gma for the family photo. The kids looked SO cute. It was cold, but again...good sports all the way around. (Maybe they were worried that Santa would take the presents back if they didn't cooperate?)
Home again, home again, jiggity jig. Most of us opted to change back into pajamas to recapture the luxury of being lazy on Christmas Day. It was a joyful day and, for the record, the sacrament meeting was quite fantastic. I'm all for going to church on Christmas. :)
*Somewhere there are loads of fun pictures from later in the day when we continued gift exchanges with the Cummings clan, as per tradition. It was another joyous Christmas celebration full of family fun.
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