A White and Warm Christmas

Christmas was GREAT this year! For starters, Santa was at the airport when we were leaving Nashville. That got the girls SO excited. We were off to Oregon for a white Christmas and most importantly Kara & Pres' wedding.

Katie, Brooklyn, Lauren

Brooklyn on the plane.


Lauren - She was smiling so it was still early in our travels. :)

Katie & Pinky

Within 12 hours of landing in Oregon, the girls were out in the snow.

(Katie, Brooklyn, Lauren)

Cutie Katie

Making a trail

They convinced us all to go out. :)

Baby cousin JJ and Katie.

Katie wanted JJ to be hers! She is such a good big sister and wants to be a little Mommy to EVERY baby she sees. And JJ is just adorable!

Christmas Eve. Our family had to fly out on Christmas afternoon so we exchanged family gifts on Christmas Eve. The girls also opened their Christmas p.j.'s

Santa was good to the girls. :)

Kara and Pres stayed up late to help wrap presents.

But......bright and early the girls were jumping on their bed and ready to see what Santa brought!

Pres & Lauren digging in their stockings.

Christmas afternoon we flew to Arizona. We arrived that evening and went straight to Aunt Terry & Uncle Evan's house.

They have a beautiful home and had a beautiful tree! The girls knew the routine and ran straight for the presents. :) :) :)

Lauren & her Purplicious book. She LOVES this book and would let me read it to her every night!

Brooklyn trying to open her very "fancy" present.

Katie with her Christmas dress. So CUTE!

Brooklyn in her new ballerina costume. This was the most perfect present Brooklyn could have received. This girl LOVES to dance!!! She dances every day, all day and wears a tu-tu wherever she can.

We also got to spend some time with Grandma & Grandpa Jones. We had such a great visit with them. The girls loved going on walks with Grandma on the paths around the golf course.

(Grandma & Brooklyn)

Brooklyn, Lauren & Katie (& baby Elizabeth)

Grandpa & Grandma Jones

Brooklyn, Katie, Lauren

Aunt Terry & Uncle Evan took us to a beautiful resort in Tucson for a few days. It was such a nice break and SO beautiful.

Brookie & Uncle Evan

Lauren & Aunt Terry

We enjoyed some swim-time in December.

And then the twins got sick! The started vomiting around 10:00 at night and didn't stop for 3 days. It is no fun having 2 sick 2 year olds at home, but 2 sick babies on vacation was really tricky.

Luckily the resort had a kid camp that Katie could enjoy. :) She was totally doted on all day......her kind of camp!

Here are the sweet babies. It was so sad to see them so sick!

Luckily, kids recover! Katie made her sisters sun glasses at her camp and they loved them. After 3 sick days in Tucson, it was time to leave the resort! :(

On New Years Eve we went out for pizza with Terry & Evan. Brooklyn got tired and fell asleep right on top of her chair. This girl is bursting with energy so she must have been completely exhausted to fall asleep like this.

Our Silly Gang

Chris

Terry, Evan

Lauren, Katie, Brooklyn

The last night we were there we took the kids to the Phoenix Zoo Lights. We all loved it. This Giraffe talked to the kids and was controlled by a hidden worker. The kids were all so amazed and the parents thought it was comical. He played game after game of hide-and-seek with all the kids that came by.

Lauren & Brooklyn hid behind the same tree each time! LOL

Daddy & his girls

We had a wonderful Christmas holiday spent with family. We feel really blessed to have so many wonderful people in our lives and were grateful to share some lasting memories with them.