Peyton's 1st Christmas & Tooth!

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That's right, her first tooth broke through Christmas night! We were driving home and she was crying more than usual. I climbed to the backseat and sure enough I could feel a little poke when I was rubbing her gums. The next morning almost the whole top of it was out! Poor thing:( Our Christmas celebration started early in the week when a lot of my family came into town. My Aunt Julie, Uncle George, Jill and Trevor, came in on Monday. My uncle is in the military and he just got his orders for Texas last month so on their way moving from Washington to Texas, they were able to spend Christmas in the valley. Then on Wednesday, more of my cousins came in from North Carolina and Peyton was able to meet her 3rd cousin, Dawson, who is almost two months younger than she is. He is such a sweetheart! I still think Peyton is a baby, but when I was holding him it made me realize just how big she is getting! Christmas Eve, Kenny had to work, but at least he was home early! I spent that morning doing last minute stuff and of course swore to myself, just like every year before, we will have everything done a week before Christmas next year. It is just absolutely silly how many trips we have made to Target and Walmart in the last couple of weeks! Oh well, it's all worth it! That evening, we went to my parents for dinner. Then we went to Kenny's parents and in honor of the Holmes' family tradition of Kenny and his brothers exchanging gifts and getting new pajamas from his parents. Peyton got a cute little Christmas pajama sack too. We got home around 10 or so then the real fun began! We had to finish wrapping Peyton's gifts and build one. This year, we didn't go all out for Peyton because obviously she won't remember anything, not to mention be able to open it herself either. She got some clothes, shoes, a couple little toys and one big toy for when she starts walking from Santa! But don't worry, her grandparents did not deprive her of anything:) It was so cute helping her open her gifts. She would hold on to the paper then Kenny or I would just pull the gift away so it would tear off.

Christmas Eve!I can't believe I didn't get one of these sooner! She loves it! Thanks Grandma and Papa!Later that night playing Santa;)Christmas morning at home!Everything was going straight into her mouth!Now how am I gonna get that up and into my mouth?Later that morning at Nana's and PopPop's, cousin Paige helped me open my gift from her! It was a cute little outfit with a strawberry on the butt of my pants!That is one sexy face right there!Nana and PopPop Holmes with Peyton! This is the gift Kenny and I made for them...It says "HOLMES" from pictures I found in random places the last couple of weeks. They really liked it too!More presents for P!My first laptop!

Later that day, my grandparents had a big shindig at their house in Gilbert and she got more presents there too! Grandma and Papa Maher with their first grandbaby!Daddy giving me a smooch during family pictures on my very first Christmas!
Look at my REAL cowgirl boots grandma and papa got for me! And I got baby Wranglers to match!Me, Kel, Peyton and Jessica! We are only 2 months apart so we all three grew up going to the same schools, for most of the years, and were the best of friends! We were practically inseperable!
My Monnie (grandma) got all the little ones cute little socks! And of course she got more toys and clothes from aunts and uncles and cousins!But the celebration doesn't end there! Saturday night we went to my Aunt and Uncles and celebrated with my dad's mom! I didn't take too many pictures there, but we had a wonderful time and once again, Peyton was spoiled rotten by everyone! Great Grandma Linda goes CRAZY when she shops for me!
A couple of days before Christmas she met Dawson! They were sitting there getting along just fine... Then she decided to grab his cheek and he was done!Thank you to everyone who made P's first Christmas so special! We had a great time with our families and couldn't ask for better ones! We love you all and hope everyone who we didn't spend it with had a very Merry Christmas too!