Various Christmases

This year, we got to celebrate Christmas quite a few times since we were traveling.  The more the merrier!  The first Christmas was sort of the traditional - put the kids to bed, set out the presents and cookies, and then wake up to open them.
Here's the tree before bedtime:

This Christmas was the year of the train for Evan.  He is SO into trains right now.  Here he is reading a new Thomas book with Papa.  He got all sorts of train things - Chuggington trains, Thomas trains, Thomas PJs, Thomas books, and a train table with various tracks!  Needless sto say, he wants to play choo choos all the time.

 

Opening gifts with Aunt Shell

Caitlin ready for presents!

For Caitlin, she got various clothes, books, some baby dolls, a neat little pram/crib for baby dolls, hair accessories, a little kitchen, a new car seat and more!  She enjoyed pulling on the paper and trying to eat it :)

After Michigan, we headed back to Indiana for actual Christmas Eve/Morning.  My brother and Grandpa came over to my mom's house on Christmas eve so we got to open a few presents that night after dinner and church.

Evan and Uncle Will - excited for presents!

Great Grandpa Richard and Evan checking out my brother's Ipad

Christmas morming- Caitlin opening her stocking

Caitlin looking at some presents

Evan (the elf) and Will opening some presents

Then, once we got back to Texas, we had Christmas with Aunt Baba and Uncle Casey! Plus, we gave Evan and Caitlin most of the gifts from us since we didn't bother to bring them up North with us.

Evan getting a Hawaiian shirt from Hawaii (my mom went over Thanksgiving)

Caitlin opening a gift

And Sierra's gift!!

So that was our various Christmas celebrations.  Oh, one gift from us to Evan was a balance bike and helmet.  When the weather was nicer, we took a few rides outside and he already does great on it.  We hope some more nice weather comes along so we can go out again.  I don't have any good pictures of him on the bike so I will take one and post later.

Okay, that's our Christmas post. I will try to continue catching up on the blog. Merry Belated Christmas!