Our Christmas Trip {In No Particular Order}

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Naps and Disney movies on VHS for all! 
Give me all the festive little girl clothes
Also, Christmas jammies
Putting his engineering degree to good use. Also: tye dye turtleneck  
Christmas Story via the Jesus Story Book Bible 
Pops & Finn
Christmas Morn' 
Cousins by the dozens (Papa and Yaya are at 13 grandkids with #14 coming in July- not us) 
Keeping warm by Papa and Yaya's fire 
 Every year I get a lump in my throat when I put their stockings on their bed
 Per usual, we made one stop- this time to rid Caris' hair of the squirrel that found a cozy home
 ..while Liza drank coffee creamer
 Kent and my dad watched a Youtube tutorial on squeezing dog's anal glands (Merry Christmas)
 We went to Lights at the Zoo courtesy of Pops and Gigi's annual pass
 Small bubbles SNOW!!
 Cousins in Christmas jammies. Heart eyes.
 These two had fun together
 We introduced our kids to egg nog. Changing lives one sippy cup at a time.
 Stocking stuffers
 It was fun to watch Liza get into things this year
 Unwrapping the shopping cart, which they promptly fought over. CHRISTMAS CHEER Y'ALL.
 Our gift to Pops
 On Christmas Eve, Ma needed to crack a ton of eggs, but didn't want to wake my Dad up so she walked like...20 feet over to the living room...because cracking eggs is so loud. THEEND.

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