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Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa’s First Christmas Photos Together as Newlyweds

Christmas is in full swing at the El Moussa household!

PEOPLE has an exclusive look atTarekandHeather Rae El Moussa’s 2021 family Christmas photos, captured this past weekend at their home in Newport Beach, Calif.

The family of fourkept up their tradition started last yearof donning matching pajamas for the occasion, sporting black-and-white plaid sets with bright red cuffs.

In 2020, Tarek told PEOPLE that the outfits and photoshoot were “a new tradition for us as a family.”

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Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa’s First Christmas Photos Together as Newlyweds

“One day they are going to look back on these pictures of all of us in silly outfits and I hope it makes them laugh,” theFlipping 101star, 40, said at the time.

“We love creating memories with the kids,” added Heather Rae, 34. “This year, it was even more important for all of us to have a sense of fun during such a serious time.”

This July, theSelling Sunsetstar told PEOPLE that she is enjoying being a “bonus mom” to Taylor and Braydon.

“The kids are a huge part of our lives,” she explained, later adding, “I love kids. I never knew I was going to have kids in my life.”

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Tarek, who shares his two children with ex-wife andFlip or FlopcostarChristina Haack, called Heather Rae “a rock-star mom.”

“The babies adore her more than anything I could imagine. They’re obsessed with her — literally obsessed with her. The four of us slept in the same bed last night,” he said.

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At their Oct. 23 weddingin Montecito,Taylor and Brayden came up to the altar and stood with the couple, who recited vows to each other and the kids. “That’s the first timewe were officially, legally a family of four, so that was very special,” Tarek told PEOPLE at the time.

The pair recently revealed they have been talking about having a child together after previously deciding not to do so.

“We don’t know what’s going to happen, but we’re open to it,” Heather, (who is now using her married name, Heather Rae El Moussa) explains. “And it would be a big decision. It’s not just something that I want to say, ‘Let’s just see if it happens.'”

source: people.com