Four Christmases: Part 2

No matter what we did on Christmas day, I grew up always opening presents at home with just our family on Christmas morning. Every year that I remember, we would then pack up the car and drive to my Aunt and Uncle’s house in the Bay Area for another round of presents and dinner with the extended family on my mom’s side. For the past five Christmases that we’ve been married (with the exception of the Christmas Travis celebrated in Afghanistan!) we’ve tried to keep that same tradition of family presents at home on Christmas morning. This year though, since we were going to be at Travis’ parent’s on Christmas Eve and then driving straight to LA on Christmas morning, we had to do our “Christmas morning” a few days early.

Savannah had fun opening her stocking of full of books, little stuffed animals, stickers, and socks (you gotta love Target and their dollar section!)

We knew that the grandparents and other relatives were going to absolutely spoil her, so we bought a 5-in-1 gift this year for Savannah and not much else. I assembled and wrapped them all separately, so it looked like she had more presents than anybody else!

She loved the new pack & play, bouncy seat, stroller, diaper bag/changing pad, and activity gym she got for her babies (which is actually now uses much more for her other favorite stuffed animals like her pink froggy and Grinch much more than for her dolls – who knew!)