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Christmas 2012

This Christmas season was filled with party after party, we were spoiled in 2012 with great gifts, friendships, and family.

First we had Ben's Dad's side.

I forgot to take my camera :( but we did get a video!

Jim and Suzi made a DELISIOUS dinner of honey glazed ham AND a roast with all the fixin's. It was Autumn's first time having mashed potatoes and they were a huge hit! Below is a video of Autumn opening her first Christmas gift from Grandma and Papa!

Notice how Hudson (our nephew) is pumped over Autumn opening her gift, loved it!

Autumn loves her castle and plays with the little people constantly!

The phone photo is a little blurry but still lovely! A very successful relaxing party. We finished the night with some very completive wii tetris and with me jumping on their little work out trampoline attempting to go into labor, with zero success:)

The Haynes Family

With my brother and his wife, my parents and our little clan.

This was a very low key Christmas party with Autumn being the only grandchild we could still have an adult party! We had our traditional Christmas eve meal (although it was not Christmas Eve) of cream of broccoli soup... yummm, opened some AMAZING gifts and then fished the night watching the Seahawks game.

Another badly colored family photo, but still lovely.

Notice my mom and Ben are matching, how cute.

Ben's Mom's Party

This party has been a tradition for Ben for a lot of years, eating the same meal every year has become a staple part of the nights celebrations. I ate more then I did for Thanksgiving, might of been a pregnancy thing, but it was all overly scrumptious!

This year there were grand kids galore and I didn't have time to take many photos before the chaos ensued.

I didn't get a picture with everyone :( I was to busy eating.

Christmas Morning

Christmas day is reserved for our little family. We don't go anywhere, we don't have anyone over, we relax as a family and enjoy our own little clan.

This Christmas started off with us having to wake up Autumn. We really enjoyed this because it may just be our last Christmas without kids waking up before us. After we got her up, we had a yummy breakfast casserole, with fresh cinnamon rolls and my very favorite OJ.

We set up the tripod and took a family photo. (I'm going to try to do this every year to see the changes in how our family grows, how our kids get bigger and we...age?)