Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

 I could post tons of family pictures, tons of pictures of Kaya opening gifts. Even tons of food pictures. But..I'm going to use these two pics for my Christmas post. Why? Because...to us Christmas is not just in our home..it's with family, family that has passed and with my little brother who is in California and can't be home (this is the 2nd year he can't be home..we've only had 2 actual Christmas's together in almost 6 yrs due to military and school)...so under these skies everyone was together :)
   We spent Cmas eve at home with our cousins, my mother in law, my Mom and Dad and a friend. It was awesome. Deep fried turkey, chili and potato soup, cheese ball, tons of pies. But it was just being together that made the evening. Cmas Day we got up to one super excited little girl that couldn't wait to open gifts..and she wasn't disappointed. Uncle J shipped her a new electric guitar..hot pink of course ;) and she was so happy, but missed him so much! Then we headed down home to the farm for the day. Way too much food, tons of family, cousin time and just being together. Exactly what the holiday is suppose to be about :)