Christmas Fun!

Well James and I had a great last couple days celebrating with our families here in Tennessee.  We were lucky enough to be able to spend quality time with both of our families.  Christmas eve we went to my cousin Natalie's house for dinner and to just hang out together.  Then we went to James's house to stay and we woke up Christmas morning to the Brown traditional banging on the iron skillet!  No one is allowed to get out of bed until Dad bangs on the skillet to let everyone know that breakfast is ready and it's time to get up!  It was fun to be able to learn more about his families traditions.  

We then went to my Aunt Eileen's house for Christmas dinner and to do gifts with that side of the family.  It was great to get to see everyone, my cousin Greg even came to town who we haven't seen in about two years.  The only ones who unfortunately didn't make it were Eric who was up in Michigan celebrating with his girlfriend and her family and also Mom was unfortunately not there because she has a stomach bug.  She seems to be getting better though so hopefully she will be back to her old self soon!  Here are a few pictures from the last few days...


James and I taking a "self portrait" at Aunt Eileen's house...I am getting pretty good at these if I do say so myself!

James's Aunt Carol Dean brought a reindeer costume that she thought would look cute on AJ...what do you think??  He is such a good sport!

James and Brennan sporting some bows from their packages

Greg was lucky enough to get the traditional gag gift of the family...the fart machine!  Yes we are quite the special family, always love a good laugh!

We hope that everyone else has had a wonderful Christmas with their family.  James and I are truly thankful for all of our wonderful friends and family that we have been blessed to be with this year and we look forward to seeing what's to come in 2009!