We spent Christmas 2011 in Atlanta with the Ducote family. We arrived on Thursday, the 22nd, so it was nice to have a few days to relax with everyone before Christmas. On Christmas Eve we went to mass and then a new tradition of going out for Chinese food which was delicious and worked out very well.
In the photo below we are missing Gary and Amber who came up on the 26th and Brian who is serving in Afghanistan and Gina and the boys who came up later on Christmas day. One of these years we'll get a picture with everyone!!
After dinner we went home to open presents. The Ducote tradition is to open all presents on Christmas Eve (except for Santa presents, of course!) We put Joseph to bed before opening gifts so he could have a good night's rest waiting for Santa to come.
On Christmas morning we had a delicious Christmas breakfast
and then Joseph was ready to check out his gifts!
Doesn't the photo below look like he is thinking, "Umm, is that it?"
After the traditional football game (which Joseph and I opted out on since it was cold and rainy) we waited for Gina and the boys to come. Joseph was SO excited to see his cousins. These pictures weren't staged at all-when Joseph saw Michael he just gave him the biggest hug and Michael of course was so excited to see him as well. They stayed like this for about 5 minutes just hugging and playing with each other!
Terri made a delicious Christmas dinner and it was a wonderful day! We are so thankful we were able to celebrate Christmas with everyone.
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