For me, one of my favourite things about Christmas is spending time with family. With four brothers and four sisters, that’s a lot of family to try and catch up with over the festive period though although I managed to catch up with seven of my siblings – four of them before Christmas and three just afterwards (hopefully I will catch up with my brother in the new year!)
Before I had children, we would alternate whose family we spent Christmas Day and who we spent Boxing Day with but now Christmas Day is spent with hubby’s parents, alternating between our house and their house as they live about a mile away from us and we travel down on Boxing Day to spend a few days with my family.
We’ve enjoyed lots of time sitting on the floor and playing with toys, chatting and catching up, playing card games and just having quality time together. The girls love spending so much time with grandparents, aunties, uncles and cousins and have been thoroughly spoilt!
Sounds like a wonderful Christmas, we got to see my family on boxing day and they thoroughly enjoyed seeing my family its great to be able to spend time with the people you love at this time of year. Have a wonderful New Year and thank you for linking up to Magic Moments.
Thank you – lovely to spend time with family this time of year. Hope you have a lovely new year too and thank you for hosting #magicmoments 🙂
What a lot of siblings you have lol. So great you got to spend time with so many of them. Lovely pictures as well ! Thats what christmas is all about. Happy new year Louise
Thank you – hope you have a happy new year too 🙂
Sounds like a lovely family christmas. It must be difficult catching up with 8 siblings, but lovely! #WhatstheStory
It was lovely – although can be a little hectic trying to catch up with everyone! 🙂
I have a similar sized family! 4 sisters and 3 brothers. All bar 3 of them were at my Mums on Christmas Day and I got to see one of them on Christmas Eve. It looks and sounds like you had a lovely time 🙂 #WhatsTheStory
Oh how lovely – I love being part of a big family. Most of my siblings dropped round to my mum’s too which made seeing them much easier! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas with your family and enjoyed catching up with your siblings too 🙂
Looks like you all had a fabulous time huni. Your little ones are so cute x #WhatsTheStory
Thanks Aby – we had a lovely time 🙂
Thanks also for linking up to #PointShoot x
Lovely to link up again, thank you for hosting 🙂
Aww! What lovely photos! It sounds like you had a fantastic Christmas! All the best for 2015 x
Thanks Kim, we had a great time – wishing you and your family all the best for 2015 too x
Sounds like a really wonderful Christmas Louise, how lovely to manage to see so much of your family. So glad you’ve had such fun xx #magicmoments
Thanks Sara – it was lovely to catch up with them all 🙂
Sounds like you’ve had a great Christmas. Lots of siblings to catch up with. I’ve really enjoyed spending lots of time with my three brothers, eating, playing board games with the little ones etc. x
Thanks Mel – glad you have had a good Christmas too x
Looks like you had a fab Christmas 🙂 #pointshoot
Thank you – yes, it was lovely 🙂
Wow so many of you! I only have 1 sister so no idea how I would cope with any more! Love that balloon photo- serious static going on there! xx #pointshoot
Ah well being the youngest means I’ve never known any different! Love that photo too! 🙂
Looks and sounds like a lovely Christmas. I love all the family time at this time of year 🙂 x #PointShoot
Thank you – love seeing family 🙂
Thanks also huni for linking up to #PointShoot x
Thank you for hosting, love joining in 🙂
what lovely happy family photos. happy new year.
Thank you – Happy New Year to you too 🙂
Goodness me you must be so busy at Christmas time! Sounds like you’ve had a wonderful break (so to speak) though. Happy New Year and thank you so much for linking up #whatsthestory
It can be busy but lovely to catch up with everyone. Happy New Year to you too, lovely to link up to #whatsthestory and thank you for hosting 🙂
I have a really really small family here in the UK. Theres only 3 of us. At home I have gazillions of relatives that I spend Christmas and New Year with and these post made me miss them!
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So sorry that it made you miss your family Merlinda, must be hard to be away from them particularly around this time of year.
I LOVE the static hair in the balloon photo, bless her! Glad you had a great Christmas with your family.
Thanks for linking up with Point + Shoot xx
Thank you – lovely to link up again 🙂