Christmas with the Heils!

Our next stop on Christmas Eve was the Heil home!  Brayden just loves his Mimi Kim and Grandpa Todd!  It was really fun to spend the evening with them along with MawMaw & PawPaw Richardson, and Lauren & Jay.   We definitely missed Garrett, but don't think he's missing us too much!  He loooves the MTC, which is just wonderful.  We love you, Garrett!

Anyway, Mrs. Kim cooked some really delicious chicken and sausage gumbo, which... I really need the recipe to!  After we ate, we opened gifts.  This year, Mrs. Kim and Mr. Todd paid for and built us a front porch!  It was heaven sent and we couldn't have asked for anything better!  Mr. Todd really put in some long hours putting together the plans and building it for us, and we are so, so grateful for that!

The "Before" pics... Have to take the "After"

Brayden got some really great stuff as well!  Once again, he was trying to eat the wrapping paper, but loved all of his gifts!  Santa even came early just so he could get his stocking!  How nice, right?!  :)  He got more clothes, toys, and books!  Unfortunately we don't have pics of everything... but here's a couple. 

Lots of goodies in the stocking!  Food, a sippy cup, juice...

He's really checking out the cars, making sure they're ready to race.  ;)

His favorite book was a bear "touch and feel" book!

MawMaw and PawPaw Richardson got him some socks and a little key chain toy.  Aunt Lauren got him some church shoes and they are adorable!  She also got him a little hat that said "My 1st Christmas"... but Brayden's head was too big. :(  We're happy for big brains, but sad that it didn't fit!  Lol!  And then she got him a little stuffed reindeer.  You can see in the pics below that the reindeer was a huge success!

I thought Brandon was zoomed in on Brayden... ooooh well.

The hat was toooo little!  He's loving that reindeer tho!

We got Mr. Todd a toolbox, and Mrs. Kim white sapphire journey pendant necklace!  Brayden helped me pick out Mimi's gift and she really seemed to like it!  She even wore it Christmas day!

A "real man's" toolbox  ;)

Mimi's 1st reaction!

We didn't have a pic with her and her gift, but this was it!

After gifts, we ate some dessert and PawPaw sang a couple of Christmas songs for us. It's kind of a tradition and was really nice!  Definitely brought the Christmas spirit!  Brayden really enjoyed it and gave PawPaw his undivided attention the entire time!  It was adorable! 

Then we played a game a Trivial Pursuit... Boys vs. Girls!  And of course the superior gender won... (hint for any males reading this: the women! *snickers*)  It was close, and the boys almost came back and beat us... but we pulled thru as the champs.  I have to say Mrs. Kim and Lauren are reeeeeally good at that game, and I was really glad to be on their team!!

After that, we went home and hit the sac!  It had been a wonderfully long day, but we were ready for Santa!