Christmas with the Meyer's

Christmas Eve Eve...The day we celebrate Christmas with the Meyer family. I really love that we get so many Christmas celebrations! I think it helps make Christmas more than one day! 

So, we went to Nana and Papa's house on Thursday, that night we had chinese food with Grandma and Grandpa Meyer (your great grandparents!) and the rest of Daddy's family. Then we went and looked at Christmas Tree Lane, a whole street where people decorate their houses with tons of lights...you loved it. 

The next day, Christmas Eve Eve, as we have come to call it, we drove to Chick-fil-a for a special lunch. Later that night we had yum-yum breakfast and cinnamon rolls (my favorite meal!) and then opened gifts. 

Here we are...

You don't love this gift yet, but I know you will, I was super proud of it...It's a super Jake cape!!

 You helped Uncle Matt open his gifts...

 You wanted Teddy to wear your cape...seriously...I'm so proud of how cute this turned out!

 This is your first kids Bible!! You love reading out of it!

 So, at the Meyer house they do these things called 'surprise gifts', it's just an extra gift after all the other gifts...it's usually something special that we haven't asked for but will really like. We take turns going youngest to oldest...you go out of the room and wait until you are told to come back into the room. 

This year, you got to go first...sorry buddy...next year Jack will go first!! Uncle Matt took you out of the room and this beautiful kitchen got moved into the room.

 Uncle Matt brought you back into the room and you jumped out of his arms and proclaimed, "Wow, kitchen, kitchen, kitchen!"

 You ran straight over to it...kind of jumping/galloping

 And you began to play!

 You had this huge smile on your face...we just let you play while the rest of us got our surprise gifts.

You were one happy boy. You really impressed me with how much you expressed your gratefulness. You said, Thank You, to each gift giver and wanted to play with the gift right then. It was hard for you to put down toys to open more gifts. We were very proud of you though, so grateful and appreciative of each gift...you make us so proud! 

I'm so thankful that our families all live close so we can be together on special days like this!