Christmas 2014

Our Christmas season started out like many others...baking Christmas cookies. As usual, we baked too many cookies for our own good. 

The Hein family Christmas picture...we had to do two different shoots to get one nice picture. But it turned out pretty nice! 

We started a new tradition this year with matching family pjs. Target started carrying multiple options...so I went with the Santas this year. 

Vivian with her bag of goodies. Both sets of grandparents got together and chipped in for a new play table and chairs for her playroom. 

The next day we celebrated with my side of the family. A Christmas selfie with my bro...

Christmas dinner...

Christmas isn't Christmas without family photos...

Unwrapping gifts...

Viv loved her singing Elmo! 

Gma Jean with her annual calendar. 

Nathan received a bean bag toss game for tailgating. 

We gave Mom and Dad the Hedbandz game...so we played a round after the gift opening was done. 

Adam was not so impressed. 

We hosted dinner after church on Christmas Eve. We had a brown Christmas this year....we had a lot of snow and cold weather for Thanksgiving...but December has been pretty mild and no snow! Nathan even commented that it was almost like a Texas Christmas....I told him that I wouldn't go THAT far....

Christmas morning was fun with Viv this year! 

She wasn't into unwrapping gifts but liked pulling the bows off the presents. She also really liked her chair we gave her and her books! 

Christmas night we traveled out to Nathan's grandparents house. It was quite hectic...Aunt Teresa got rear ended on the way there which left her not able to drive her car. Jeff and Doug went to pick her up. Brian and Amanda weren't able to make it since August suffered an allergic reaction on their way down which landed them in the ER. (He's doing fine now)

Viv did pretty well with everyone. She normally gets really overwhelmed when we walk into a room with a lot of people and won't leave my side or let me put her down. She was nervous when we first arrived but soon decided it wasn't such a bad place. She would even let Zaley and Ryker pick her up occasionally. Nathan played Santa again...but I videotaped it this year instead of taking pictures. He must have been convincing because Viv melted down when he picked her up. She is not down with Santa! 

Pics with Great Grandparents...

It's always a chaotic Christmas!