More Christmas Day Celebrations with Great Grandparents

After a fun filled morning, we headed to San Jose for more Christmas celebrations! The kids loved seeing their cousin Iris! The kids had a lot of park playing time, playing with their new toys, and getting some good family loving!

Great Papa showing Tim the photo book

Iris and Violet had fun playing together

Great Papa got some good snuggling time in

Uncle Luke and Iris

Burning off energy at the park

Obligatory pic #2 before the gift opening begins

Tim by the tree

Uncle Luke playing with Tim

Crazy climbing kid

It was a long day for the little kid

Dad swinging with Tim

Merry Christmas at Home!

We wanted to wake up at home and celebrate Christmas morning before moving onto the next celebration! I made cinnamon rolls, yum! It followed the prime rib I made for our Christmas Eve dinner. The kids were so excited that Santa came into town!

Santa came to town!

And left a note

Tim was so excited!

Violet shows me the presents

The obligatory picture

Opening the goods

Ashton asked Santa for an Army costume!

Tim wanted Elmo

Violet wanted Dancing Barbies!

Major Ashton Besmer knows how to stand at attention!

Christmas Eve Celebration with Great Grandma Tomate

Onto Day 2 of Christmas celebrations with Great Grandma Tomate, Uncle Tino and Auntie Marybeth. Papa Domi had the day off and was able to join us too!

Auntie Marybeth with Jaythen playing with Violet

I think Uncle Tino had more fun than the kids!

Ashton trying to climb the tree!

Tim wants me to get a grapefruit!

Brother hugs!

He likes them!

Papa Domi playing with the kids

Enjoy pizza and the pretty day!

Tim loved the Filipino bakery donut

More presents!

Poor Tim wants to stop on the rocket launcher!

Christmas Celebration #1

Our kids were spoiled, S.P.O.I.L.E.D.!!, this year with so many different Christmas celebrations. I think they think Christmas is a week long celebration instead of the one day! Our first celebration started with Nina Lucy and Nino Frank's family on Sunday! We were lucky enough to have a Filipino, cowboy Santa come into town just for us!

Ashton loves to climb on the outside of the play gym!

Fun with the cousins!

Violet loves the swings!

Someone else loves to climb to1o

Waiting for Santa!

Cousin love!

Christmas Baking

Every year I do a lot of baking. I squeezed it all into one day this year. It made for a long day but hopefully everyone enjoyed them!

My favorite cookies! Peanut butter cup cookies! Yummy

A new recipe, oatmeal spice cookies. Not sure if they were as well liked.

A pile of cookies

Packing up

Chocolate covered pretzel sticks - yum

All ready for deliveries!

Violet's gymnastics performance at break the barri

Violet had an end of the year gymnastics performance with her gymnastics class. She wasn't fond of the loud noise, so there's not much to it. But she loves going!