Christmas was amazing as usual. This was the first year that Mr. Hunt and I were together the whole day, were with each other for Christmas eve, and then together on Christmas morning. We had so much fun with my family, but we missed Chris' family alot.
The Thursday before Christmas (day before Christmas eve) we went over to the Hunts house to have dinner and exchange our gifts. We got alot of awesome gifts that I mentioned in my recent blog, but we also had a great time visiting with family. Grandmamma and granddaddy Hunt, Aunt Lease and Aunt Kena, and Aunt Marsha were all there too.
The next morning (Christmas eve) we headed down to Bluffton. It was a challenge trying to fit everything into the car with all the Christmas gifts we brought down. When we got there, we relaxed for a bit before going to church that evening. The church service was great as usual and it really put me in the Christmas spirit. When we got home from church, we got ready for Christmas the next day.
Now my family has some traditions for Christmas eve that we have stuck to all these years. For awhile I thought that every family did this, but I guess not. We don't put out any gifts under the tree at all. Not even gifts from eachother. We liked it when we were kids because it made it seem like there were so many gifts the next morning. Now we just do it because that is the tradition. We also put our stockings in the seat that we want to open our gifts at the next morning. Davis has always been the one to choose where everyone sits, so we still let him do that. My parents also always give us a pair of Christmas PJs to wear that night and Christmas morning. They got Mr. Hunt a pair this year so that he wouldn't feel left out. So we followed our usual traditions and headed to bed early.
The next morning we opened our gifts and headed over to our cousin Melissa and Shane's house for the family get together. It was nice of Melissa to have it over at her house so that our Grandpa could come out of the therapy place and come over since she lives close. It is always nice to see the famly but we were missing our Aunt Lisa and Aunt Fran. We did our traditional girls and boys picture. We have done this since before I was born. The boys picture was always smaller than the girls but this year was the first year we had a ton more boys. My Grandma has all the pictures together at her house from all the years. Its funny to see them all and see how the family has changed in all the years.
The next day we headed to North Augusta, South Carolina to see Mr. Hunts family. His family always meets there at Grandmamma Geri's house sometime around Christmas to get together and eat and exchange gifts. I'm happy to say that they/we have added a new tradition this year and that is to read the story of Jesus' birth out of the Bible before we eat. I think that is a great idea. Sometimes we need to be reminded why we are here, and why we celebrate Christmas, and that is the perfect reminder. It snowed the whole way up there and the whole way home and I loved it.
When we finally got home Sunday night, we had at least three inches of snow! The dogs were super excited, and so was I. Too bad we weren't there when it was snowing on Christmas to have a white Christmas.....but we wouldn't have changed a thing about our Christmas.
I hope yours was as good as ours :)
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