We decided to do things a little different this year. In past years we have always stayed the night at my parents on Christmas Eve to wake up to a yummy Christmas morning breakfast. We would then load up and head back to KC to join Justin’s family for the Christmas Day celebration. This year, we headed down a day early so we could be home Christmas Eve night and wake up to celebrate on Christmas morning, just the three of us.

We arrived in Carthage around 7:30, just in time to eat some of the luke warm pizza and get Kaden into his pajamas. Luckily, Blake will still wear matching pjs-Brett at 13, thinks he might be a tad old for it. Plus, it isn’t an easy task to find matching pjs for a 13 year old who is 5’6! And lucky for us, next year, we will have another little guy which will get to join the pj fun!

We knew the next day was set to be busy so we tried getting Kaden to bed but he was just having too much fun. Daddy took him upstairs to rest and when I peeked in around 9:30, he jumped up and started clapping his hands and screeching at the top of his lungs-this kid was not tired! I brought him back downstairs and he headed right for his four wheeler where he got ride after ride from Cousin Brett! Finally, with everyone else falling asleep, we headed for bed ourselves and he eventually shut his eyes. One might think he would sleep in a little, but nope, up and at it by 7:15! Gotta love my early riser!!