Christmas

We were able to drive to visit our family this year for Christmas instead of flying. It definitely had it's pros and cons.

Pros: more room to haul things, we have our own car to go back and forth between family members, we didn't have to plan our exact days and times for traveling

Cons: 7 hour trip turns into a 9 hour trip because of bad winter weather on the roads.....enough said!!!!

We made it there safely but it got to be a little stressful at times. It's a good thing Aaron was driving!

So with these big holidays where there are lots of pictures taken, I find it hard to only pick a couple to include. So I have picked more than a couple but I only used ones that I actually took myself on my camera instead of trying to pick out and download from my mom, sister, sister in laws, brother in laws,etc... I was also taking video on our video camera too so not so many pictures on my camera I guess.

Collin sporting his new monkey hat (made by my mom's very talented friend)

our attempt to get a picture with all 4 grandkids for my mom
Collin chewing on his new best friend....Aunt Lauren did a great job at picking out that present!

Brady in his new bean bag chair

Christmas morning......Brady got his Stinky the garbage truck!!!!

If only the creators of this talking garbage truck could know how perfect this toy is for an almost 4 year old. This is what he has been wanting for a while and he is still so excited about this truck from Santa-even with the truckloads of other presents he got!

Brin and Collin playing on the floor together

Aunt Erica and Aunt Lauren "testing out" Brady's little earpiece walkie talkies!

Aaron modeling Chads new hat

This one cracks me up....Collin is checking out his pile of presents while Brinley makes her move on his binky!! I didn't notice it while I was taking pictures but I clearly see it now.

Nice family picture before we left. I hope everyone had a great Christmas. We are sure lucky that we have such great family that spoil our kids for us!!! But we are even more lucky to just have great families that we love and that love us! :)