We had a great Christmas break. It was a lot of traveling, but so worth it to get to spend so much time with our families. We started with a 3 hour drive to the airport, then a 3 hour flight to Texas. The kids loved riding on the plane and were all really good on the plane.
Quick bite to eat before boarding.
Landed and went to Mallie and Dallie's house for play time with the fam!
The next morning we went to Great Wolf Lodge for a fun night. I don't have as many pictures as Emily has, but I'll just post what I have from my phone. We enjoyed playing in the indoor water park of the hotel for hours, then a pizza party for dinner followed by the Magic Quest throughout the hotel in our pjs. The kids got to spend the night in the "treehouse" with Mallie and Dallie. The next morning, we had breakfast in the Gingerbread House. It was all very cool and great memories with their cousins.
We got to enjoy the storytime in the lobby where it snowed!
Pointing the wand at the Magic Quest and completing a task.
Outside the gingerbread house.
We went home the next day after playing in the indoor water park more that morning. The following day, we all hung out at Mallie and Dallie's house and Santa showed up! Mallie told the kids she was expecting a package so when the sleigh bells started, David ran to the door then turned around and said "It's not a package, it's just Santa" and closed the door. Presley and the other kids jumped up immediately and ran back to the door. It was a very neat meeting with Santa. The kids all listened so intently to everything he said.
Playing with No No.
Cameron and I took our goddaughter, Bryn, out for lunch to her favorite spot one day. It was really nice to get to spend time with her one on one. She's such an amazing little girl and so much fun to spend time with.
The kids got to open some presents and loved everything they got from all the family.
David got a really cool train set for construction cars. The perfect gift for him!
Love them in their matching pjs.
We all spent the night together Christmas Eve and had the kids lined up in age order Christmas morning (just like I did every Christmas growing up).
Checking out Santa's gifts
Anna was more interested in breakfast than opening her gifts.
Santa left David and Presley a note that they were getting bikes that he delivered to their home in California instead of bringing to Mallie's house. Bryn also got a bike from Santa and was so nice to let Presley ride on it.
David played with Liam's fuze ball table all morning!
Also loved playing with Liam's new nerf gun
This little elf loves Christmas and is so in to it this year. Now that our decorations and tree have come down, he misses Christmas a lot. He's still singing Christmas carols and wanting to watch Rudolph. Can't wait to watch him enjoy Christmas next year!
Emily and Nick took him out to Nick's jobsite for a godmother gift and morning with him. To say he loved it is an understatement. He got to sit on the equipment, pretend to ride it and enjoy spending time with them.
I'll post more pictures once I get them. We were so thankful to have a nice week to play with our family in Texas. We made a lot of great memories.
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