Christmas

Ok so obviously I am a little behind… but I am catching up. We were able to fly to Georgia for Christmas to be with Nick family. Nick is the oldest of 8 and it was such a special treat to all be together for Christmas. The last few times we have visited with his family we haven’t been able to all be there so it was an extra special Christmas. Nick’s sister Missy and her husband Chris have three sweet little girls that are our kids ages so it was a blast to have all the cousins playing together. His sister Beth and her husband Craig had their first baby this year as well, so there were three babies and four big kids. Nicks other sibling were built in entertainment :) yay!

Nick’s grandma was also able to be out from AZ visiting so that was special too! I am not a huge fudge fan but Grandma Mckellars fudge was DELICOUS seriously, I mean  come on now I’m blogging about it, two months later… good stuff.

We flew in the day the 23rd and stayed for a week. Our flights went great. It’s a long flight. Even with out kids you start getting antsy after that many hours of traveling but kids get burned out. We flew to San Jose first and than TX and than GA so it was just a lot of flying. They all did really well and we didn’t have any embarrassing screaming moments or anything. The baby is a champ, seriously. It was before she crawled and that was really nice because she didn’t want to get down. She would be a lot harder to fly with now. It really is amazing though that you can hop on a plane fly all day and be all the way across the US pretty cool! When we flew home we only had to switch flights once and all three kids slept for awhile on our second flight because it was pretty late GA time. I think we landed at 10:30ish.

We had a wonderful trip and we are so thankful for all the fun times! Thanks to all the family for making our trip great. Especially Nick’s mom and sister Katie. Seriously they both did so much cooking and so many dishes. Grandma McKellar did lots of dishes as well. There were 21 of us together and 19 of us staying there a couple nights so it was a cooperative effort to get everyone fed and everything cleaned up. We all pitched in here and there but after one particular meal Nick mom was back in the kitchen prepping for the next meal an hour later… Thank you for all your sacrificial love you’re a great example! Katie you were a servant to all of us thank you!!

I will probably continue my narrative through my pictures… so here goes

Christmas morning was a long process to get all those gift opened. The kids had a blast! I don’t have the picture of the mess in the stair way but I will have to get it. There was  a lot of wrapping paper!

see in the kitchen…

Christmas Night we got snow! A White Christmas, very pretty. The kids were very excited and they headed out for some play time. Here are a few pictures. I didn’t have the “big” camera but these are still pretty cute.

Allie was running around full tilt and than all of a sudden decided she was tired and Aunt Missy’s lap looked inviting. pretty cute!

we were trying to get a family pictures but Anna was tuckered out! She had been sleeping for a long time but I think she went back to sleep after this picture.

the group ( I took the picture and evidently Missy’s baby was sleeping, I don’t think I have any pictures of her but I promise little Rachel was there!)

these two were so cute. Wills is a month older than Anna and he had so much fun playing with her. He would go looking for her any time she wasn’t around.

the kids did some ginger bread houses while the big boys went out and played some Frisbee golf. I think everyone had fun.

watching Bambi

here are these 4 cuties.

Anna is 4 (bday Aug) Allie 2(July) Sonja 2(April) and Wills is 4(July)

(Allie’s shirt really does fit she just was pulling her arms up…)

One of my favorite parts of the trip was being able to play games together after all the kiddos went to bed. We stayed up till late at night playing Pictionary, buzzerwezzer, hearts, and a few more and it was a lot of fun! We had a wonderful time and it was great to meet the newest members of the family. so Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you had as wonderful time as we did with your friends and family.