Christmas Eve

Every year, we (the WHOLE family!) have spent Christmas Eve at my Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw’s house.  Our family has grown over the years and my grandparents now have 3 children (+spouses), 6 grandchildren (+spouses), and 5 great-grandchildren which brings us to a total of 24 Bolicks!!  So, it’s a FULL house…but they wouldn’t have it any other way!  It’s LOUD and a little chaotic at times but we have SOOO much fun and laugh so much when we’re all together.  God has blessed us with an amazing family!! 

Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw bought all the girls cameras.  Ella went picture crazy…wonder where she gets it from?!  She took over 300 pictures in 2 days! 

Ella didn’t put the camera down even to get her picture made :)

Baby Jackson didn’t know what to think about all the crazy people especially when we were all taking his picture!

Yep, he’s JOLLY…well…not all the time :)

The GIRLS…poor Jackson is going to catch a hard time next year from all these little ladies!!

Mimi and Cousin Britt

Paw-Paw Sanford and Aunt Candy

Uncle Eddie actually managed to get a little shut-eye during all the chaos.  The girls tucked him in :)

Aunt Cindy and Uncle Eddie bought Ella her own dress-up trunk full of dress-up clothes, jewelry, tiaras, shoes, and every possible accessory a princess would need!  And it was organized into smaller containers that were decorated with stickers!!  It was such a FABULOUS gift and Ella LOVES it!!!!!!!!

After a fun day at Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw’s, we go to my parents and unwrap gifts. 

Ella was ready to start opening presents at this point…I think this is her impatient face.  I couldn’t get her to smile for anything!  It could also be her tired face because she played ALL day with the girls! 

 
Ella was so funny when she was opening her presents.  She would look at it for a couple minutes then she would say, “Can I have another present, please!”  We probably could have wrapped a bunch of boxes without anything in them and she would have been happy :)  Mimi and Paw-Paw must have thought Ella was a VERY good girl this year!!!