E is for Erickson: Merry Christmas

What an amazing Christmas we had this year! We had such an amazing holiday with family and friends…it's hard to believe it will be another 365 days until next Christmas!! Luckily we still have a few holiday parties coming up in the next week so we get to continue the celebration :)

Our Christmas festivities started early on Sunday since Parker was headed to Europe for 3 weeks (I'm still jealous!) and was leaving Christmas day and Mark was leaving Monday to spend Christmas in Iowa. So we had brunch at our house so we could spend time with them before their trips! My favorite part of the day was playing Heads Up! Good times for sure!!! :) Oh and we had a selfie standoff … I think the girls pic was the best since the little babes were in it!

The best part was the boys were outside in the backyard while we were inside watching Frozen! LOL

Christmas Eve we were at the Ericksons ~ it had been a while since Jayden had opened any gifts, so she didn't really get it at first…but once she opened the first present, she loved tearing the paper off the gifts and wanted to unwrap all of the gifts under the tree! Needless to say she was a pro by the end!

That night we had an amazing Mexican Feast at the Herrell's house ~ enchiladas, tamales, a taco bake, rice, beans…the works! It was AMAZING and of course my favorite was Scott's enchiladas!! Mmmmmm soooo good! And Jayden had a blast running around with the other kids at the party! She was in HEAVEN! :)

When we made it home, Jonathan and I stayed up wrapping the final big gifts and putting together her big toys! We wanted to give Jayden her big toys last so she would actually open the other presents under the tree…so Jonathan "hid" it in the other room. I just about died laughing when I saw how he hid it! LOL

Christmas morning Jayden was up bright and early at 7:45. I ran downstairs to turn on the Christmas lights before Jonathan brought her down so she would be so excited!

We had such a relaxing morning hanging out and opening our gifts to each other! About halfway through Jayden started getting hungry so we took a break to eat breakfast (I'm sure that will probably never happen once she and the twins are older).

Then we were back to opening gifts!!

Giving daddy Christmas kisses <3

She was in such an amazing mood all morning! She was so happy and we still had one big surprise left :)

After all the other gifts were opened, Jonathan brought out Jayden's big surprise and she was SO EXCITED! We bought Jayden her first CAR! Cozy car that is! LOL

She played with her new car for about an hour! Just getting in and out of the car and trying to honk the horn! This was the best gift ever :)