Christmas Eve at Memaw's

Every Christmas Eve we go to Memaw's and the entire Brandies side gets together. We are a fairly close family and really enjoy being around each other. This year I believe we had 45 people in attendance. We used to have it at Memaw's house, but as she has gotten older its harder to have it there, so we moved it upstairs above the store. Its not quite as comfortable, but it is much easier.

Luke received not 1, but 2 laptops and Ava wanted them, he tried his best to protect them from her.

He kept saying "No Ava!" - I don't think she listened, because she kept following him around the entire room. He finally spotted a couple of her toys and wanted to play with them, so his mom made him share his laptop with her. And of course, at this point, he was happy to oblige. So cute!

In this room we had 3 different sets of 5 generations. Its neat to be able to think that Ava is chasing around her 4th cousin trying to get his Christmas gift. I know that next year, when the newest little babies are Ava's age, they will be doing the same thing to her and we can say that 5th cousins are chasing each other around. Not many families can say they are that close with extended family.