Christmas part 1!

We spent the weekend before Christmas traveling to visit my family for Christmas part 1!  The kids did amazing in the car ride down!!! (don't worry they made up for it on the ride home….)
The weather was unseasonably warm so we enjoyed lots of time outside playing!

 My parents have a great screened in porch with a large day bed and TV….Ryan and the kids enjoyed the outdoors at night too!

 For dinner my Bonus Mom bought a prime rib….it may have taken hours to cook, but it was divine!!!!

 I unfortunately got a 12 hour bug and spent most of the night like this….

 On Sunday morning we made a huge pancake and bacon breakfast(I was thankful that I felt better and could partake in this feast!) and then opened presents!!!  We have a very big family who loves to buy presents so the tree was full!!!

 The kids loved opening gifts and all the excitement and energy around it!  Seeing all of our traditions unfold with Graham and Ellie here is the best gift of all.  

 My bonus Mom found these adorable farm animal wheelys that the kids already are enjoying!!

 She also found a gag box to wrap one of my gifts in….it seriously looked like the containers you feed gerbils out of and the box said it was for kids and you were to put energy drinks in them!! hahah!!!

 Jake got an iPhone!!

 Thanks again to my family for a great Christmas Part 1!!!!!  I am so proud of these two and how well they did this trip.  They were just full of smiles the entire time (again except for the second half of the car ride home).