Hecht Family Christmas

The rest of Christmas day was spent at my parent's house and we all had a wonderful time!  It was so great to have the whole family together!

The Henry family helping Cedar open his gift from us...

...dinosaur puppets!

Griffin got to help open Tate's presents, including this Glow Worm from the Henry's (:

Finley

 

Star Wars Legos for Tyler

A name train for Tate from Uncle Erik

Awesome Star Wars lunch boxes from Uncle Erik!

Sadie

Erik had my name for the gift exchange and he totally surprised me with Toms shoes!  I had been wanting a pair since the summer, but I kinda forgot about it and didn't ask for them for Christmas.  He just thought about it on his own--what a cool brother! (:

This is the "how did you know I wanted these?" look.

Aaron had Josh's name...

...and got him a humongous Nerf gun!

I gave to Becca

Josh gave to Aaron

We all gave Mom & Papa a calendar and Apple TV (:

Me with my little Tate on his 1st Christmas

(6 weeks old)

We are so thankful for the sweet gift that he is to our family!

Papa made these cool Jolly Roger climbing toys for the Novemberists!  He also made wooden dinosaur puzzles for Cedar & Tate!

And he made stilts for the three oldest grandkids!

What a fun Christmas!

Christmas Morning

Reading the Christmas story:

the five of us

My new hat & slippers from Josh

Kung Zhu Pets!

Oregon State Beaver jerseys!

I love his excitement & cute expressions!

Jaimi sent me these gifts from Thailand where she was playing pro beach volleyball this fall!

~so peaceful~

My big gift to Josh...

...a firepit for the backyard.

Josh's gift to me/us was a Nook! (:

Our big gift to the boys was a battery-powered motorcycle that we bought off Craigslist.  It's definitely something that the boys will grow into, and in the meantime it's a toy that Josh will have a lot of fun with. (:  He rides the boys up & down our street on it--I'm sure the neighbors get a good laugh out of it! (:

The guy who sold us the motorcycle also had this Hobie Cat on his property that he wanted to give to us.  Josh, who is always up for adventure and a project, excitedly took him up on his offer. (; 
Hobie One Kanobi~ it couldn't have had a more perfect name for our Star Wars-loving boys!

Christmas Eve

This year we spent Christmas Eve with Josh's family ~ eating together, opening gifts, and just hanging out.  As always it was a lot of fun, and crazy at the same time with so many little kids!!  They all did great and we had a really nice time.

All the cousins except for Tate who was sleeping at the time.

Look at my cute & goofy husband!  He came up with this outfit all by himself, and wore it the whole night. (:

Cousin Ethan holding Tate

Great Grammie reading to Macey & Griffin (:

     Uncle Jon trying to keep the kids (Ronan) away from the presents until it was time.

The littlest cousins (:

Baby's 1st Christmas!

Present Time!

Great Grandma Ruddick made blankets for each grandkid.

We gave Audrey & Lydia sweater dresses from their favorite store (:

Brian & Sarah Slater joined for part of the evening

Tate slept in the Moby Wrap through most of the gift opening.

Griffin's new blanket:

Tangled books for Macey

Ronan's favorite gift of the night was a Paper Jamz guitar from Grammie & Grandpa!

Sweet One

Josh's gifts to Amy

A hedge trimmer from Amy

Three frogs for Grammie from our three boys (:

sweet brothers-in-law (:

the guys

the sisters