Christmas Day

Growing up, we were Santa people to the max. In fact, I'm 100% certain that I've seen Santa's sleigh flying across the sky at night. ;) While Santa Clause was a fantastic thing in our lives, Christmas Eve scared the beegeebies outta me. I thought the jolly old man was going to come into my room & watch me sleep ("he sees you when you're sleeping..."), so every year on Christmas Eve, I slept with Seth. Then, that became a tradition, too (I'm big on traditions), so all the way up to the Christmas before Seth got married, I slept on the floor in his room. I'm a weirdo, I know.

Aaaanywho, I've since grown up enough to be able to sleep in my room alone on Christmas Eve. I'm now the last Amos child still in the nest, & I've taken on the title of "Hannah Clause". Like I mentioned before, I've been blessed with a fantastic job that pays me enough money to be able to pay my bills and spoil my family.

Usually, we're trying to work out a meal time when all of us can be together. With all of our family & our significant other's families living local, it's tough to get schedules to match up. But we always make it happen! This year was easy peasy. Stacey is an only child, so her parent's Christmas revolves around her, Seth, & Carson. Around Thanksgiving, they had the brilliant idea of combining our holiday meals so that everyone could be together without having the stress of needing to get over to the other family. We went to the Dowdy's for Thanksgiving & the came to our house for Christmas. It's nice having "in-laws" that are just as much family as the actual "in-law".

After my family did our thing, Sebastian & I headed over to his parents' house to spend the rest of the evening with them. Our families have always done Christmas differently. It worked out this year, because we're wake-up-early-and-dive-right-in people, while they're sleep-in-late-and-open-presents-at-night people. So we got there & talked for awhile, opened presents, & talked some more. I brought my camera inside, but I set it down & never picked it back up. Sometimes, I just annoy myself too much. Haha

Merry Christmas!