The King's Life: Lily's First Christmas

I know, it’s February and I am making a post about Christmas but I am a little behind in my blogging and I don’t want to skip over the last few months. We have been very busy and I will do my best to catch up on all that has been going on… starting with Christmas!

We had such a great Christmas this year with Lily! Everyone came into town this year so Lily had all of her aunts and uncles there to shower her with love.

We celebrated Christmas Eve mass with my family and then had dinner with the whole Mason family at Uncle Dick and Aunt Kathy’s. One of my most favorite traditions growing up was gathering on Christmas Eve with the Mason family, having all the aunts, uncles and cousins there together. It makes me so happy to have this tradition a part of Lily’s Christmas too.

Lily turned 8 months old on Christmas day and even though she is little I think she really knew that it was a special day. We woke up that morning and spent our first Christmas morning together as a little family. Lily had lots of gifts to open and was excited to pull the tissue paper out of the bags and find the toys inside. Then we went over to my parent’s house for breakfast and gifts with my parents and sisters. Lily was certainly spoiled by all the gifts and was enjoying all the love and attention she was getting.

Our next event of the day was going over to my Grandparents house to share the day with my mom’s side of the family. This is also a tradition that we have carried on since I was little. We always have such a great time with the whole family and this year we had four generations celebrating together for the first time. That is such a great blessing and truly made for a special Christmas.

Our final event of the day was going over to Austin’s parent’s house for dinner with the King family. Everyone was there and we had so much fun playing games together and making dinner. I even won a Gin Rummy game and Austin won a game of Sorry. Everyone brought a homemade dish to share so we came home with so many yummy treats that lasted for quite a while.

The day was so busy but we feel so blessed to be able to share Christmas with all of our loved ones. It is so easy to forget the true miracle of Christmas and get caught up in the presents and hustle and bustle, but for one day we share meals, gifts and so much love with our entire family. I think that makes for the best Birthday celebrating the birth of Christ and to me brings forth the true meaning of Christmas. God has blessed us in so many ways, the biggest being our faith and the love we share in our family. Both are celebrated on Christmas and it brings us so much joy for Lily to be a part of that now.

Merry Christmas to all of you (a few months late)!! If you are reading this then you are someone we love and we thank you for being a part of our lives!

Now for some or a lot of pictures...

Decorating the Christmas tree with Dad