Christmas 2008

This Christmas was the first time that we did not have Santa come to our house. We wanted to stay in Savannah Christmas Eve so that we would have more time to spend with our family on Christmas day. But we ultimately left the decision up to the boys. When we asked Travis if it was alright that Santa came to Savannah instead of Jacksonville, he said "Yeah that's fine, cause Santa knows when you are sleeping, so he has to know where you are sleeping...right?" We stayed at my Nena and Peepaw's house on Christmas Eve. Christmas morning we went from my grandparent's house to Travis' parents house to my parents house, back to Travis' parents house, then back to my grandparents house. It was a long day.

As a gift to my grandparents, my parents went into the woods and cut down a pine tree to put in their house. This was how my dad remembered their Christmas trees growing up. My Peepaw used to search for the perfect tree in the woods, cut it down and bring it home to decorate. He would drill holes and fill in the bare spots with more branches, paint it silver and put it on a home-made tree stand. My dad replicated one of these old trees, we painted the needles silver and decorated it with old timey lights decorations. My Nena and Peepaw were so surprised to see this. It brought back wonderful memories to them from "the old days".