Christmas fun, times four!

As I said in the previous post, we traveled, what seems like, all over Texas to celebrate Christmas with all sides of our families (over 1800 miles to be exact)! Our last celebration was three weekends ago, so I'm a little tardy on getting this post written...

First up, we headed to Wichita Falls the weekend before Christmas

We made sure to stop by the Fantasy of Lights there on our first night there. It was raining and cold, so we had to enjoy it from the car/drive-thru. But that was a-ok with the boys!

We stayed with my sis and her family, Cousin picture with three of the four Stewart cousins in their Christmas pj's

The next morning we traveled to Vernon to see my grand-mother, my dad's mom. She was up for the company,

as we had a nice visit (fully of lots of coloring) and lunch with her

How to get three kids napping in a car at the same time? Let them stay up late, wake them up early to leave for their great-grandmother's house an hour away, and feed them a good lunch :-) 

That night we celebrated with the Jacksons, my mom's side. There were about 30 of us there, including these 6 great grandkids :-) 

We headed back the next morning to the Fantasy of Lights again so we could explore in the daylight and on foot!

On Christmas Eve and day, we had our own little celebration at home with our family of four. Jameston fed the reindeer some food the night of Christmas Eve,

and we left out cookies and milk the night before for Santa :-) 

Christmas morning!

He kept giving us the play-by-play of everything he saw, it was pretty darn cute!

Plasma car

We also sang happy birthday to Jesus at breakfast!

On the 26th, we had my dad and siblings over for a belated Christmas dinner at our place

My step-mom had a fun new Polaroid camera, and she snapped some great pics of the night. So fun!

And the guys played washers while us gals gabbed :-) 

The next weekend, we headed to Austin to see Brett's family. Jameston sporting his new shades on the way :-) 

The seven Winters' cousins, our baby to be will make 8 :-) 

How we distracted them during the gift exchange...genius!

Father and son, so sweet

Cade and the youngest, Claire, who is 6 months old

Seeing the wonder through a child's eyes makes the holiday even better!

The kids all enjoy all the outdoor activities at Granny and Papa's house!
Going on a hike! Blake and his stick

Aunt Kayla was in from Seattle!

Blake wanted to swing like a big kid. Slow down on the big-kid stuff, Blake!

Sunset in the Hill Country with my boy

Jameston got some big brother practice with newest cousin, Claire. She took a nap on him and me, so sweet (and Blake didn't freak out, thank goodness)! Our little family-we are so blessed! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone