Christmas Eve in North Carolina

Christmas Eve morning we drove down to NC to be with my family for Christmas. Sean was excited to see his family but also for more presents! It was great to get to spend some time with my grandparents who live in NY. They hadn't seen Sean since last Christmas, but he quickly warmed up to them. Our first order of business was to decorate sugar cookies (a tradition). My grampa and I frosted while Sean and my grama did the sprinkling. After that we took some family pictures, courtesy of Auntie Jenn and then exchanged our home-made gifts for the 11th year(another family tradition). It was a great Christmas eve and we got some great family photos!

 

Decorating cookies with Great Grama (G.G.)

 Look at her eyes checking out the wrapping paper!

 Cuties!

Nama and Poppy and the grandkids

 The whole gang!

 The Rettigs

 Grama and Grampa Bliss with the great grandkids

 Carter and Auntie

 Someone likes to look at herself in the mirror!!

 Grampa got a fourth of July decoration from Jenn

 Dad got a home-made frame from Grampa (he literally made the frame!!)

 Grama got home-made hand scrub

 I got several new hand made scarves

 Dan got a picture frame from me (no I did not make the frame!)

 Nama got a picture frame from Dan with the kids hand/foot prints in it

Auntie and Sean got sock snowmen from Nama

It was another successful Christmas Eve and home made gift exchange!