Christmas Eve

This year for the holidays everyone decided to split Christmas up into different days.  This way we could spend more time with each family and not be running around like chickens with our heads cut off.  Christmas Eve day was spent at Grandpa and Grandma Purcell's house.  We arrived around noon and had a nice lunch, opened presents, played Dirty Santa and White Elephant, and relaxed before heading home.

Nolan received lots of fun gifts, bathtub toys and books to name a couple!!

 Playing kitchen with Grandpa Bill

 

The three youngest: Rebekah, Zach, and Nolan

After leaving the Purcell's, Bill and I decided to go ahead and drop off our presents at Nana and Papa T's that way there was one less thing to do Christmas morning.  Nolan found his Christmas present and was thrilled!!  He received a Little Tikes Truck from Nana and Papa T.

 Nolan honked the horn all night!! He thought he was big stuff in his new truck.

The Allis-Chalmers tractor was played with too.  I remember when I was a kid, Papa T wouldn't let us play with his "collectible" tractors.  Funny how things change when a grand baby is born!!

Bill, Nolan, and I arrived back home at a reasonable hour.  Nolan had his bath and we settled in to watch Christmas specials on ABC Family.  Bill and I have a tradition where we open one gift each on Christmas Eve, so we had to let Nolan in on the deal.  After we each opened a present, Bill and Nolan settled into the big chair and listened to Grandma Donna read 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, a new tradition on Christmas Eve which was started when Nolan was born.