Christmas 2010

We were pretty excited about Christmas this year. While Aubrey still doesn't understand the meaning of Christmas, she does understand the excitement that comes along with it. We started the Christmas season by helping Todd's parents decorate their house. Aubrey did her own version of helping by taking decorations down, which was not very helpful, but still cute.


We then went to pick out our tree and Aubrey loved walking around and looking at all of the trees.


We then let her help decorate our tree and hang her stocking, which were very cute to watch.

The week of Christmas always brings the tradition of traveling to Raleigh for Todd's dad's family Christmas. Christmas Eve always starts with a big breakfast.

After breakfast, Aubrey, Betty, Traci and I all took off for our annual Christmas Eve shopping trip. It was a little bit more difficult to shop with Aubrey in tow, but we managed to make it with only a few tantrums. After shopping and socializing, it was time to eat. The family always roasts a pig for Christmas, but Aubrey decided she only wanted to eat chocolate-covered cereal instead.

Santa always comes by the house on his way around the world to see the children and give out an early present. Aubrey did not disappoint with the expected meltdown when Todd tried to place her on his lap.

Sitting with Aunt Traci didn't help much either.

We somehow got this picture with her none the wiser about Santa sitting right behind her.

Presents seemed to help things seem better.

We drove back home Christmas Eve so we can wait for Santa's arrival. And Santa was very good to Aubrey this year.

Her face realizing that all those toys were hers was priceless.

She loves, loves, loves the Crazy Coope and we have a hard time getting her out.

The ball pit was a big hit as well.

We then traveled to see Gma, Grandpa Jimmy, and Traci to see what Santa delivered there for us.

We went back home and picked up Grandpa Barrett and traveled to Kernersville to see my mom's family. It started snowing on the trip up there and made everything so pretty.

We enjoyed hanging out with the family, but had to leave early to get home before the roads got worse. We then had Christmas dinner at our house with Grandpa Barrett, Lacey, Jeffrey, Gma and Grandpa Jimmy. During dinner, it started snowing pretty heavy so all the family left us to get home. Todd took Aubrey out and all she kept saying was "its snowing, its snowing." She got to experience the first white Christmas in our area in 47 years so that awesome.

All in all, Todd and I agree that this was one of the best Christmases ever. This is what we dreamed about when we decided to become parents and it was so much fun to share with Aubrey.