5 Golden Rings: Christmas 2012

We had a very quiet Christmas this year just the 3 of us. It was truly great to be in our own home to celebrate Christmas, but we really missed being with our families. We went to Christmas Eve Mass at our church for the first time ever, and we then just enjoyed our time together at home. After mass, we skyped with my parents, Mawmaw & Pawpaw, so they could see Kaleb open his gifts from them. Then Christmas morning after he opened his gifts from Santa and us, we skyped with Kirk's parents, Mawmaw and Pops, while Kaleb opened his gifts from them. We did the same later that afternoon with my Brother and Sis-in-law and their kids, and then later that evening we got to Skype with Kirk's cousin Catherine, her parents, husband and kids. What did we do before Skype? Kaleb's commentary while opening gifts on Skype was quite humorous. He would yell " I love it, I love it!" before he even knew what it was. After each gift, he liked to say "thank you" and "Merry Christmas!" It was quite adorable if I may say so myself!

Our weather forecast was for a white Christmas, and I was pretty excited about that. Being from Mississippi, we never even really experience a cold Christmas, much less white. Unfortunately, we got the cold temps and the wind from Winter Storm Euclid but not one snowflake. We had a good Christmas despite the lack of snow.

We wanted a good picture of Kaleb at church and a good family photo, but he was too wound up to stand still. We did have a pretty fun photo session of action shots though!