After all the fun of Christmas morning, we had everyone over to the house for a wonderful meal and lots more presents! It was nice to have the whole Brown fam – plus GJ! – together.

The very merriest of Christmas days!!

We were up early Christmas morning and were happy to see that Santa stopped by!

Everyone had fun inspecting their loot!

Lululemon!

Flying LOL!

But the most fun was when they gave each other presents – or really when Maxwell gave out his presents. He got very into the act of giving this year and it was fun to see.

Samantha was pretty pumped about her new kicks from Maxwell!

And Spencer was really excited to get his gift – which was going to be EXTRA cool had a real life Grinch not stolen the Nike Grinch shoes off of our porch while we were in Paris! Ugh. But, we handled it, got a refund from Nike, and Spencer got a promise to get his shoes whenever we found them!

Of course, opening GJ’s present is always fun! Samantha’s face – haha!

And even though we told the kids that Paris was their big present for the year, Robert and I had one last trick up our sleeve.

You see, Robert’s got a bucket list and one thing on that list was to see Alabama play in the Rose Bowl. How could we not?! California or bust!!! A very merry Christmas morning for sure!

Christmas Eve was busy this year! We arrived home from Paris on the afternoon of the 23rd and had the 24th to get all the things ready! Deliver macarons, grocery shop, set the tables for 16 and prep the Christmas meal!

I even managed to squeeze in some tennis! hooray!

We got it all done and made it to the 5:00 church service by 4:15 – which was good because it was almost already full! We don’t look tired at all, do we?!

After a Feliz Navidad taco dinner, the jet lag caught up with us all and we nestled in our beds with visions of sugarplums…and hope for a good night’s sleep!

Merry Christmas Eve!