The trip started out with a 17 hour journey in the car with a 2,4, and 5 year old...definitely not my most favorite thing. But before we left I searched Google for every idea out there on how to keep little ones busy on long car rides and I found some great ideas that I had never thought of before. So the night before we left I packed my Mary Poppins bag with lots of goodies including: scotch tape, post it notes, coloring books, stickers, ect... and boy did they enjoy themselves! :)
We were celebrating Christmas with family the second half of our trip; so the first half of our trip was dedicated to seeing all of our beautiful friends! :)
Just can't get enough of these girls :)
Bellabear and I hanging out at the park
Me and my Kelsey
Our old home group had a Christmas party while we were there and I got to see all of my amazing friends that I missed so much! {My Lauren and Heidi}
Playing games with the homegroup...some of the people couldn't be there but I was happy to see every body and their growing children
I can't believe that when I first met these ladies all of our kids were practically babies!
Annabella and Caydon (Lauren's son)
Crystal couldn't be at the Christmas party since she just had her little boy so I went to see her. That baby was ridiculously handsome by the way! :)
Charlie's parents watched the little bits one night so Charlie and I could go out with friends without any munchkins...
Really?! We order an Oreo Sunday dessert and this is what we get..one Oreo?! Lame. :)
Sunday night we settled in and started our Christmas festivities with the family. Sunday the Ullah's came over (Charlie's aunt and uncle and cousins) and we celebrated Christmas with them. The kids thoroughly enjoyed Zachary, Lorena, and Holly (Zachary's new fiance!!)
The kids enjoying some new gifts
It was so fun watching the boys play together...they played together before but now I think they are all old enough that they can just play without the adults intervening all the time.
Sweet Addyson
Annabella and Addyson were two peas in a pod. Annabella LOVED having a little girl around and I think Addyson enjoyed hanging out with the big kids!
Me, Ricki, and Jaime (my pretty mother and sister and law)
The morning we celebrated Christmas together. And it couldn't be complete with the yummy cinnamon rolls.
My favorite people :)
Charlie and the kids getting ready to open presents
Nana and Addyson
Annabella very excited about her new horse for her American girl doll. Although since she has received it she has tried to ride it way more than her doll. haha :)
This picture makes me laugh...oh malachi. :)
coloring with Nana
This is SO crazy! Texas has been going through a drought and all that sand used to be high water!
There was water covering all that grass and sand and it went up to half the dock that they are standing on. That's nuts!
Ezekiel riding one of the baby deer :)
longhorn :)
Cooking with nana
Annabella and Addyson modeling their matching outfits
We had such a great trip and even though the car trip was long..veryyy long...haha....it was way worth it!
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