I absolutely love my family!! They are just great! Every time I'm around them we just laugh all of the time! This year we had our traditional Christmas meal on Christmas Eve at my grandmother's house. We had pork loin, butter beans, dressing, cranberry salad, and sweet potato casserole! YUM! We started a new tradition a couple of years ago; on Christmas Eve we always watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Me and my family can quote the ENTIRE MOVIE!! An "outsider" would probably be intimidated at this point. We all just get so crazy and start yelling out lines form the movie and laughing hysterically!!! Then Gaga read 'Twas The Night Before Christmas, my personal favorite. Ever since Hope and I were little children, the family has always rung jingle bells and spotted Santa on Christmas Eve. This year my Uncle Jimbo went outside and rang some jingle bells for Bo and Cozy! They were soooooo excited! Bo wanted to run home right then and get in his bed! Sowe all adjourned to our respective houses to wait for the arrival of Santa Clause!
Next comes Christmas morning, something I think the Caton's are famous for. People that have married into the family think we're inside, but we find it completely normal. Hope and I awoke from a sleepless night at 7:00 a.m. to find many presents waiting for us in the living room. This year I got a new TV, printer, monogrammed towels, and book ends for my dorm room. I also got some new clothes, a GPS, and The Help book and movie. After opening presents from our "Santas" Gaga, Greg, Mother, Daddy, Hope, and I made our way up Magnolia Hill to Cindy and Chuck's house to watch our cousins Bo and Cozy open their gifts. When I say I have never seen so many toys in my life, I am not exaggerating! They were so excited and got lots of cool things! After experiencing the craziness up the Hill, at 9:30, the whole fam-damily headed to Gaga's house to open presents. This next hour and a half is 90 minutes of pure insanity. The Caton family Christmas is not complete without the follwoing: screaming children, wrapping paper up to the ceiling (literally), barking dogs, someone trying to hide the underwear they recieved, and a tear or two. This year was no exception. All 13 of us starting ripping and tearing our presents at once! By 11:00 a.m. its all over, everyone travels home with armloads of presents to play with their "toys."
We all spent a relaxing afternoon trying on our clothes and figuring out how to work our gifts; then we all rendezvous that evening at Gaga's for finger foods. (Most of us are still in our PJ's hehe). Jimbo and Susan could not make it Christmas night because they had to go to Banks to be with her parents. Cindy was doing this hilarious impersonation of this Yankee woman who comes and picks up her pee-canz. I was crying by the time she was finished.
Well as Cousin Eddie would say, it was Real Nice Christmas Clark! Hope your's was just as Merry!
Fluffy and Cozy
My fam minus me
Gaga, Bo, and Daddy
"When I went to Auburn every freshmen had to have a pair of saddle oxfords!"-Gaga
Monogrammed Towels for my dorm!
How sweet!
She takes after he cousins!
Uncle Clark hehe
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