Back it up...

All of the Christmas festivities are over, but I still have tons and tons of good pictures and memories to share with you all so I will try and back up a few days each day and post about our adventures. Today's pictures are of Christmas Eve. We thought we would try the 4pm mass so that we wouldn't have to rush the rest of the evening. Well, we were in for quite a surprise. We were told that 4pm mass was very popular and to get there early so we were literally on the church grounds at 3:33pm and there wasn't a parking space to be had ANYWHERE and by the looks of all of the cars you would have thought a major rock band was performing. It gets worse... we walk into church to see that every single seat is taken, extra chairs are taken and there is barely any room to even stand, BUT stand is what we did. I brought along reinforcements for Seth and he sat on the floor and read books and never made a peep. By the end of the hour standing in heels, I was dying! Right after communion we decided to head right out and it is a good thing we did. Our car was parked so far away we just made it in time for a serious downpour. We only suffered minimum wetness, but my Mom, who waited the extra five or so minutes to leave church, got totally drenched.

Our handsome little guy right before we went to church

My boys totally color coordinated and it wasn't even planned

Seth and Jacob at church right before mass started

Family Christmas picture at Aunt Virginia's

All smiles with Grandma and Poppy