Christmas Whirlwind

Well our Christmas weekend was packed with joy! We arrived at my parents at 930 Thursday night, after a 5.5 hour drive over a clear and dry pass! Spent Christmas eve lounging around then headed out to my Grandpa Bruce's house {my dad's side} It was so nice to see so much family! Those of you who didn't make it, you were truly missed!! After a ham feast and gifts and hanging out and watching all the second cousins playing we headed back to my parents to open our traditional Christmas eve PJs. Christmas morning we woke up had breakfast and opened gifts, then went to Grandma Stubb's and ate snacks and opened gifts and then headed out to my Aunt Sandy's and had a blast playing pool and cooking up a giant turkey feast and opened up even more gifts!! The kids were so excited! In fact, Ethan was so happy he kept running around asking what other presents say Ethan on them?! I had to tell him to hush ;) We went back to my parents and Sunday headed to our old church and saw {almost} everyone! That was such a treat! Afterwards we went out to my bro-in-laws place and had a post Christmas ham feast and got to hang out playing games and catching up and watching all the cousins {all 12 of them} play!! It was perfect. We left there and headed out to the Sconyers house where some of our friends came out to visit and play more games. We ended up leaving there around 330AM to return to my parents. Didn't get much sleep. Packed up double what we came with. And made our trek home. Again, over a clear and dry pass, thank the Lord! Unpacked and picked up and then opened up our gifts here...We got a Wii...so as exhausted as we all were, we stayed up until midnight playing before we fell over sleeping! {PS the kids went to bed around 9, they melted before us} So all in all? A wonderful whirlwind of a weekend!!