Christmas!

Christmas kind of snuck up on us this year.  It's amazing how a 4 month old can keep you so busy you forget Christmas is coming.  We finally got around to decorating our house and tree (kind of) the day before Christmas Eve. 


Daddy showing Claire all of the lights....notice we didn't even get around to putting up ornaments.

Claire didn't seem to mind...she still loved it.

She especially loved the presents underneath the tree.

Of course she wanted to eat them.

On the eve of the Eve, Claire finally got to meet some very special relatives.  Uncle Paul, Aunt Kris, and Kian came home from California for Claire's first Christmas.  Claire couldn't get enough of big cousin Kian.

He had her laughing with all of his dancing around.  So cute. 

She still has a little bit of stranger anxiety but did let Uncle Paul hold her for a few minutes.

On Christmas Day, the whole fam had brunch at Grammy and Pop's...the first time the Flanagan cousins got to be together.  It was so exciting....don't let Claire's face fool you.

  Claire got to hang with little cousin Lilly.

 She looks for anything she can get her hands on

 This hand looks tasty...

After brunch, we finally got to open presents.  Claire got a pretty cool jack-in-the-box from Aunt Laura, Uncle Eric, and Lilly.  She loved it.

She would wait for jack to pop out then immediately try to eat him.  Aunt Laura thought it was so funny, she couldn't stop laughing....Claire couldn't understand what was so funny.

Big cousin Kian LOVED his bowling set from Grammy and Pop.

Uncle Patrick even had to join in the fun.

And so did Pop.

After presents, it was time to sing Happy Birthday to Mommy.

Then more hanging around with her besty.

Mommy was so busy taking pictures of Lilly she didn't notice the blanket Claire had pulled over her head...oops!

Before heading over to Aunt Marcy's for Christmas dinner, Claire did a little showing off.  She's been doing such a good job standing up lately she just had to show the fam.

So exciting!

 Lilly's turn :)

In all of the craziness of opening presents, we didn't get any pics with the Grenko family on Christmas Eve or a single picture of Claire with Mommy & Daddy :(  Lesson learned for next year.  Despite the lack of pics, it was a great first Christmas with our little lovebug that we'll always remember.