Christmas

Christmas this year was purely magical. We are so blessed to have so much family to share the Holidays with and though it can be exhausting traveling here and there, we wouldn't change it for the world!

The weekend before Christmas was Goliad Christmas.  That includes everyone on my father's side of the family.  We all met at my Mimi and Papa's house and shared a great weekend together.  It was special this year because my cousin, Jaqui, and I both have new babies and this was their first Christmas so it was so much fun with both Ryan and Millie.  Here's a picture of the new baby cousins hanging out....

Ryan Paul Rubio (6 mths.) and Millie Grace Bird (3 mths.)



Millie and Ryan with their great-grandparents.

After a great weekend with the Pillow's in Goliad, we went home and began preparing for Craig family Christmas (my mom's side).  It's been tradition in our family since before I was born to all gather at my grandparents' house on Christmas eve and enjoy fellowship with the WHOLE family.  I'm talking aunts, uncles, cousins, great-aunts and uncles, third cousins once removed, etc.  I mean ALL the family comes together.  It's so awesome.  We all play chinese Christmas and exchange gifts.  Here's a couple pics from Christmas Eve:

When Christmas morning came, we dressed all the babies in matching Christmas pajamas and took pictures.  These girls are so close in age and we are all just giddy thinking about them growing up together.  I'm sure they will all be very close.  Not only family, friends!



From left: Millie, Colbie, Reghan and Rylee

 It was so wonderful to FINALLY meet my baby twin cousins Reghan and Rylee.  If you remember, my aunt and uncle have been living in Singapore the past year and they had the babies over there.  Christmas was our first time meeting them and they are oh so precious!  They are six months old now (two months older than Millie).  I had so much fun watching all three of them interacting and playing.  It makes me so happy to know that these girls will grow up together.  Also, my sister-in-law Paige just gave birth to identical twin girls right before Christmas!  Isabelle Cecilia and Sophia Elizabeth.  They are so beautiful and precious and It's exciting to think that Millie has TWO sets of identical twin girl cousins to grow up with all her age.  I just hope Millie doesn't get confused and start asking us where her other half is.  Ha!

I hope you all had a magical Christmas!