Early Christmas with the Nelsons

This past weekend we celebrated Christmas a little early with Grant's family. We went down there on Saturday morning and got back late Sunday night. Chad and Drew were there when we got there, but poor Emma had a high fever so her and Becca didn't come up until Sunday morning.

We had a family get-together with Grant's dad's side of the family on Saturday night, but before we went, we wanted to go ahead and hand out one gift to Alan and Susan (before the surprise was ruined at the get-together). Since Olivia and Drew were born, we've gotten Christmas pictures of them together to give to them. This is the first year that Emma got to join them. Here they are opening up their gift:

Here is the picture of them together that we got and gave them and a couple others that we also got of Olivia:

Here the kids are hugging before we left for our get together:

We had a nice time seeing the family - we were just sorry that not everyone could be there. Here are some pictures from our gathering:

Then it was time to get the kids to bed - we were going to have a busy morning doing our Christmas with Grandmom and Granddad!

The kids were definitely spoiled (as were we!). Grandmom and Granddad always go WAY above and beyond with all of us and it is very much appreciated. I know that we all had a great time hanging out and came home with some great goodies! Here are some pictures and videos of our Christmas with them:

Emma's First Christmas:

What a mess we made:

We had a great time with everyone. This coming weekend we have my family coming to our house on Christmas eve so that Olivia can enjoy waking up in her own house to find that Santa has visited her. Then on Sunday we have another family get together with Grant's mom's side of the family - so we'll be making a day trip to see everyone.