This year we traveled to Fountain, CO to spend Christmas with Jim's family. This was our first time traveling by air with both kids, need I say more? Actually, outside of the fact that from start to finish it takes about 8 hours, all went pretty smoothly.
So we had a house full of people - Jim's mom and dad, brother Tod, brother Greg, his wife Meg and their two girls Jennah (10) and Kelsey (6), Jim's sister Kayte and her son Michale (3 mos), plus the four of us! Oh and 3 dogs! Even with all the people there is was a wonderful visit. We don't get the chance to get together very often and do enjoy each other's company.
Makena was enamoured with Michale, Kelsey and Aidan played the whole time, and Jennah, well she took turns entertaining Makena and hanging out with Kelsey and Aidan. A lot of Wii was to be had! Aidan and Kelsey also went to the Dinosaur Museum.
The kids loved playing in the snow and then hanging out in the hot tub.
Christmas eve not a creature was stirring...
Christmas morning was mostly about the kids, and they really did a great job being patient waiting for their turn to open a gift.
During our trip Kayte set up a photo session so we could get some pics of the kids. Makena wasn't really wanting anything to do with it so our session was short lived. Not the greatest pics (really wishing now I had cut Aidan's hair and I had worn a different top) but at least we got some family shots.
When we returned home, we had a second Christmas (so we didn't have to drag all our presents to and from CO) which the kids loved! We also had our only snow so far this winter.
Prior to Christmas we did our yearly visit to Santa - once again, Makena wanted nothing to do with taking pictures with him. Maybe she is a Navajo Indian - they believe that if your picture is taken your soul goes with it?
2 comments:
Yeah! You are alive and blogging again:) Looking forward to seeing you guys next weekend!
I love looking at all the pictures :) I hope we get the chance to get together again this year {{hugs}}
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