Since my oldest is graduating this year I've turned into this super nostalgic person. I've been going down memory lane a lot lately. When I posted about the Christmas stairs pictures I wondered to myself when did that tradition actually start. This is why I love my blog...I was able to go back every year and find all the pictures. Granted the quality isn't great for some of them, and some of them are more candid shots, but it's still fun to look back.
2011...I was pregnant with Zeke.
2012..Zeke Man's first Christmas.
We spent the night at Ga-Ga & Pa's and had Christmas morning there, but didn't do a stair picture.
2013
Second time waking up for Christmas morning at Ga-Ga & Pa's. I just love how all 4 of them can sit on the top stair and they aren't even smooshed together. They were all so little!
2014
When they were little the kids would not wake up early for Christmas morning. I don't know, but we got the golden ticket or something. We have never had a kiddo come into our room at 4am asking to open presents. They are just great sleepers. That does make for some pretty squinty faces when we wake them up since their eyes haven't adjusted to the light yet.
2015
All smiles!
2016
Once the kids did get older we instituted a 7am wake up time on Christmas morning...mama needs her sleep.
2017
Every year I always wake up before the kids so I can go to the bathroom, get my slippers on, go downstairs light a Christmasy smelling candle and start Christmas music. For one of the years we could hear the kids awake in their rooms waiting for the clock to turn to 7am. We could here them talking about coming in and scaring us to wake us up, but little did they know we were right outside their doors so just a few minutes before 7am Michael and I simultaneously burst into the boys room and Ella's room and shouted MERRY CHRISTMAS at the same time. It was hilarious!
2018
This was the start of Ella's nightgown phase.
2019
This was the first year I bought our family Christmas jammies...I even found a set for Ella that came with a matching nightgown for her doll.
2020
Dolls and stuffies have to be included in the stair picture. This was also when Owen was all about these cat sock/slippers I gave him.
2021
The last year with a nightgown and a doll. The end of an era! The last year that Owen wore the cat sock/slippers...they finally got a hole in them and his toes were sticking out.
2022
The year of the Cabin Christmas. This was the year that Christmas day fell on Sunday so we went to church and didn't open gifts until after service so no stair picture. The boys decided to change back into their jammies, but Ella didn't want to.
2023
2 with glasses and the second year of Zeke wearing those same jammies.
3 with glasses and the third year of Zeke wearing those jammies! :) :)
It has been an absolute joy and pleasure to watch these kids grow up. The saying the 'days are long, but the years are short' is so so true.
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