Christmas in Levelland

This year, we spent Christmas with my parents, sisters and neices, as well as our extended family in Levelland! It's always good to be back home, especially around the holidays, even if things have changed since Grandpa and Grandma's passings...that's the exact reason for our family to be together, to make sure that those changes don't build walls between us all! We always remember them, and you can see the resemblence of one of them wherever you look in the room :) I miss them dearly, but like I said, being with other family is the BEST medicine!

So this year, we had the family fun at my mom and dad's house, where we gathered to play some games and eat some great tamales!!! After we ate, the kids played and then we waited for everyone to arrive so we could let all the little ones open their gifts (I didn't get any pictures of that though...oops!)!

During the play, Nolan "played" (I guess I can call it that, he was really taking toys away...) with his baby cousin, Dominic, whom he adores! He always asks about him, so getting to be around him is so cute to see...and, you can see why...
Look at Nolan's face just being around him! Of course, Dominic isn't so sure, but it's still priceless!

Nolan giving Dominic hugs... :)

And, kisses...SO SWEET!!!

And, he's still smiling, after Dominic crawled to his grandma for safety!

I then immediately stepped in to fill the void! I'll never pass up one of those hugs!!!

After the family left, we put on our pjs and got ready to open our family gifts.

(In this pic, if you can see, Nolan has a dirty face due to sneaking cookies with his Aunt V!)

This is the bear that Aunt V got him, and he likes to sleep with it at naptimes :)

Opening some more gifts...

Showing daddy his monster truck!

Finallay, he unwrapped the big gift from Nana and Papa...a Handy Manny four-wheeler!

We then cleaned up and went to bed to wait for Santa! You will just have to wait and see what he brought us :)

Hope you all had a Great Christmas!!!