I know this is extremely late but I am just now getting around to posting our Christmas Memories. Christmas Eve is when we spent Christmas with my Dad and step mom. They came over around lunch time and we ate and opened presents with them. Dalton got a ton of clothes and a ride on radio rocket filled with wooden cars and airplanes inside the storage seat. When they left we went to church service. Last year I had to walk out with Dalton during the service so we were nervous about this year. Thankfully, Dalton did amazing and stayed in his seat quietly during the whole service. I haven't uploaded the pictures from when my Dad and step mom were with us or of Dalton playing in the snow and with the live nativity at our church. We got to service early and met up with Nana, Papa, Uncle Robert and John John since they had went to the service before ours. We got Dalton something to eat at the cafe and we went to find his Class that he will be getting enrolled for when he turns two. Dalton was so excited to see all of the little kids and they had Santa, who he was NOT thrilled to see, a penguin, an elf and frosty the snowman all there to say hello to and take pictures with. At our church all of the services are always PACKED so we went and got our seats and enjoyed the magnificant service that Pastor Kerry held. When it was over we went to nana's house for tradition in our family of Christmas Eve calzones and chivilet.
This is when we always open our presents from the grandparents and aunts and uncles. Dalton had so much fun at nana's opening all of his presents.
We have this exact same picture of him last year with his presents from then all around him. I put them next to each other and couldn't believe the difference. I feel like it was just yesterday that he was having his first Christmas.
Everyone always sits in a circle and we go one by one to open a present. It takes longer but it's nice to see what everyone gets and their face reactions rather than us all jumping in at once to open presents.
Gammy and Uncle Robert being silly. They were the only two out of the brothers and sisters this year because usually my Aunt Carol is there but this year her and her family spent Christmas in Disney.
Dalton kept running around everytime he would open one present. He even tried on Uncle Robs reading glasses:) That is one of his newest things is to put on glasses lately I don't know what it is with him because when he was small I would have to literatly FIGHT him to keep some sun shades on and now he wears them even when it's dark outside.
Dalton was so excited when he opened Uncle Aaron's present that he got for Dalton. It was a HUGE red back filled with all of Dalton's favorite things. In there was a nerf football that Dalton went completely inside of the bag to get out:):) 
I couldn't get a picture of it that wasn't blurry but it was hilarious to watch him go into the bag. That was it once he opened that and his kitchen from nana and papa he didn't want anything else to do with his other presents.
As you can tell by his face expression he is mad that I was "disturbing" his play time with the kitchen and his Poppy:) He has an attitude that has developed out of nowhere and we're doing everything in our power to help him control his moody fits that he gets. Alright terrible twos we're in our gear and ready for you lol. 
At one point Poppy had to go outside to take the trash out and Dalton went CRAZY. He was crying and yelling and when one of us would try to get him away from the door he would kick and scream. Yes I know wonderful way for my child to act on Christmas Eve. We're working on the tamper tantrums.
He had such a good time throwing touchdowns between him and Uncle Robert. We taught him how when we say ok catch it he sticks his hands out right in his chest where his elbows are WAY back behind his back and he scoots back to try to catch the ball:)
Dalton's other new thing is to say "touchdown" and throw his one hand in the air. He says it when football comes on the tv and he sees everyone cheering. He said "pootball" and we are 100% sure that he LOVES football so hopefully next year we'll take him to a game with us and he can say "touchdown". His favorite teams are the Florida Gators and Dallas Cowboys go figure hahaha. He takes after Daddy and Mommy but as soon as he sees Tim Teebow even if he's not in uniform he says "pootball" and same with Tony Romo. If you ask him who's our favorite player he will say Teetow and when you ask him who's going to win in football he'll say Romo.
Our family has a tradition that on Christmas Eve we sing happy birthday to baby Jesus and we have his birthday cake for dessert. This year was pretty funny because my Uncle John who is known in our family for going back for thirds and fourths was the first one at the table for Jesus's birthday cake. It was only him and Ramsey the table begger that were there and all of the rest of us were finishing presents. We kept saying where's John John and then we looked and saw him in the breakfast room and started cracking up.
Dalton did a great job this year of singing happy birthday he just sings happy over and over again and he also said the blessing at our Christmas meal which was "Jesus tayne tou food eat amen"
We thought it was super cute how Ramsey and Dalton were the same height when they were both begging Uncle Robert to pick them up. Ramsey wanted to eat but Dalton really wanted to sit on him and snuggle. That's my lovely little boy the other attitude is when he's Chantz's hahaha.
After Dalton and his Uncle Aaron finished their wrestling matches on Nana's floor we decided to go ahead and take our little man home.
We set out cookies for Santa
when we got home and then Dalton had to go to sleep so Santa could set up his toys in our living room for him.
When Dalton came down the stairs Christmas morning he was all smiles as soon as he saw the living room floor COVERED in things that Santa had brought for him.
At first you could tell he was a little overwhelmed and in shock but then once he realized it was all for him to play with he got down and started running around.
It took forever unwrapping one present at a time because then he would want to get it out and play with that one for like twenty minutes before I could get him to open another one.
Uncle Aaron had stayed the night with us and he did a great job of helping us with opening presents with Dalton. We pretty much opened presents all day long:)
And if you tried to tell Dalton look do this side first or anything like that he would give you his mean look like don't talk to me let me do it myself.
The rest of Christmas we spent putting toys together and playing with them. We had the christmas lunch at our house this year where we make baked ziti. My family is italian that is why we have all these weird italian foods that are made from scratch through the recipes that have been passed on by generations for the christmas holidays.
Nana, Papa, Gammy, Tim, Uncle Aaron, Uncle Robert and Uncle John came over to eat with us and then watch some Christmas movies.
I feel like every year I say this was the best Christmas but it just seems like every year it gets better and better.
On the way there during the ride Gigi was trying to teach Dalton how to say "Cranky Randy" to his Uncle Randy and Dalton learned how to say them seperate but not together but he did say it to him when we got there haha.
The kids had such a great time playing together. Dalton decided to bring his elmo doctor kit which is something he got for Christmas from us and was something I really didn't think he would even want but he used to like Elmo so I went ahead and bought it. Now since then he's carried it around everywhere and says "ehmo".
Kade just cracks me up everytime that we are spending time with them because he's so protective of Dalton. He's the best big brother and watches out for his little brother and sister great and it's so cute that he does it for Dalton too:)
Kole is 9 months older than Dalton and Dalton is 5 months older than Kyelar so it's really cute to see them all play together. I love when they all use their baby language and they can all understand each other but us adults have NO IDEA what they're saying haha.
Kyelar got a play cell phone for Christmas and Dalton and Kole were making phone calls to their girlfriends on there.
Gigi went outside to smoke and that was it Dalton was going outside no matter what any of us said ha. Well of course when one goes they all fall in line. Then Kade wanted to go so then Kole wanted to go and we wanted Kyelar to go too so she wasn't left out and before you know it we were all outside lol.
Of course the little boys wanted to go and see the cows that were in the one pasture next to Pop's house.
Uncle Randy told them to stay away though because there was a mean bull with them who was having some anger issues earlier that morning and he didn't want them getting hurt. We all went to eat at this yummy place that I can't remember the name of. When we were done we came back to Pop's house and opened presents.
This is what we got Kole for Christmas. This little boy LOVES horses and anything that has to do with them. Well since Randy and Stephanie's house is like Toys R Us lol we remembered we hadn't seen one of these over there so we knew he would like it. Well we were right HE LOVED IT.
Kole rode his horse all around the house until he was so pooped that he ploped down on the floor.
We love coming to Pop's house because this is where Dalton started walking. He just loves Pop and we thought it was awesome how he waited and waited and waited until we went to go see Pop with him for the first time and that's when he chose to walk. He loves sitting on his chair with him but we have to watch if he pushes the buttons and messes things up.
Kade had some game system that I can't remember what he told me it was but it was so neat. I know it wasn't a psp because I asked him that and he said no it's some new game thing they have for younger kids and he got a new game from Stevi and Brandon that was sponge Bob. Hmmm Dalton's favorite so Dalton watched sponge bob run around and kept saying "ponge bob" as Kade was playing.
Stevi and Brandon had bought all of the kids these little light up things and knowing how Dalton is you can guess that that is all he wanted to play with for the remainder of our stay there. (I mean besides his "bootball" that is permanetly attached to him lol)
We all went back outside because the kids wanted to go back out there and Dalton played with Coonie, Pops dog.
The cows came back over and Uncle Randy had to steer the kids away from them again.
We all had fun walking around and letting the kids run together. That is one thing that really made me want land now it's not like you have to say no don't go into the street because the street is WAY far away so you just have to keep a close eye but not hover over them.
There were these shells all over Pop's land and I kept asking Chantz what are those.
Well.....those were pecans. Chantz was picking them up and putting them in his hand with a rock and cracking them. I didn't know how to do that so I was just waiting for him to crack them so I could eat them haha.
I had never had fresh pecans that had just fallen right off of a tree like that before but let me tell you they were DELICIOUS!!!
We were trying super super super hard to get a picture of the four of them walking holding hands towards pops house but unfortunately when you have three under the age of three it's a little hard to do that.
Kade was great in helping us try to make them do it but Kyelar and Dalton wanted to go the other way and Kole was so scared of Coonie getting him that he didn't want to do it period. I think the one that we got was pretty good though with the circumstances:):)
There is kind of like a tradition in Chantz's family that every boy has been pictured on this tractor that's in front of Pop's house. We decided to get all of the kiddos on there for a pic.
This one we did have success with:):):) They may not all be smiling but everyone is looking at the camera and they all look adorable!!!
Dalton was more interested in playing football outside than anything. It was really sweet how him and Kyelar wanted to play it together:)
One thing that did kind of shock me was he wasn't very open to sharing with them and he always shares at his babysitters house so I don't understand where this was coming from.
It was very hard to take pictures of him because he was so into taking off running with his football. The cutest thing and I am glad I kind of got a picture of it is when he take off with the ball he pulls it up to either side alternating if that makes sense so he will be running and jerk it to the left and then jerk the football to the right and act like he's running for the gold medal:)
It's super cute in person and I'm going to have to get videos of him doing it becuase his face is just priceless.
Originally we were going to buy Keylar these pink and camo ugg boots for Christmas but we didn't know her size. She already had some tan ones that she was wearing that day which were SOOOO CUTE!!!
She also for the FIRST Time ever since she's been born came over to me and hugged me without me even asking her. I was sitting there on the floor talking and I feel someone come over and put their arm around me and I thought it was Dalton, but when I looked up it was the little princess:):)
I was super excited to take pictures this day because I officially got my new camera and Chantz had bought me the sd card for Christmas so I actually got to use it:):) I can not believe that the one he got is a 4GB and the one I had on the other camera was a 1GB and held already over 2000 pictures and still had room. With this one I won't need a new one until Dalton's like in elementary lol. Thank you Chantz. He did very special things for me this year for Christmas.
He bought me the necklace that I really really really wanted and was pretty sure I wasn't getting. It was an "ornament" on the tree though and didn't get it until all of my other presents were already opened. It's the heart with diamonds from Helzberg but it has the mother holding her baby inside the heart and I really wanted it when I saw it. I'm not really that into jewelry and usually only wear my ring but this year I really wanted some nice jewelry that I could wear everyday so I got my necklace that I wear EVEYRDAY!!!
Speaking of Jewelry....while we were at Pop's I opened my present from Stevi and Brandon and it was a charm. Well I had asked for a charm bracelet from Chantz (that I had been asking for a while for) and didn't get one.
So I said Chantz see I even got a charm I really need a bracelet now.
He tells me ok well maybe next year and Stevi said well mom told me you had one I'm so sorry.
So we all went back to our house to open presents from Gigi and Paul. They had gotten Dalton an easel and we didn't want to have to sit in the car with that the whole way home lol.
I go to open my presents and look at what Dalton's holding....a James Avery bag.
I look inside and there is two charms and then I'm really upset because I still can't use them. Well I look in the other little bag and it's a....CHARM BRACELET!!! I was so excited that I had finally gotten one and I could now use all of the charms I had gotten.
We were having a charm engraved for Gigi for Christmas however it didn't get done in time because there was a deadling due to the overwhelming amount of people purchasing charms.
Thankfully her pictures did come in on time though. Dalton had so much fun opening her presents because they were wrapped in Dora the Explorer paper.
And then when he saw what they were he was thrilled and had to show her who every single person was in the pictures.
The other funny thing that happened while opening presents was Dalton was hiding under the tree and Gigi went to go underneathe to find him and she ended up getting stuck trying to find him and get a picutre and he came out the other way behind the chair. Brandon was laughing so hard at her laying under the tree and said get a picture of Gina under the tree trying to get a picture of him when he 's not even under there anymore hahaha. It was really funny and we were all laughing really hard.
We all had such a good time and a great Christmas and it was so wonderful spending so much time with our families:):):)
