Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I'm a little slow in my posting, but I have good excuses. I always have excuses. It's one of my specialties. :)

Anyhow, this year was quite different and cannot go unmentioned. We did something we never tried before and traveled to spend the holiday with friends! Dear friends, mind you, that we consider to be pretty much family, but still. It was different. And awesome! We went down to San Antonio along with the Hawses and stayed with "Aunt Sally" and "Uncle Joe" Davidson, as our kids know them. What a trip! It was honestly so unexpectedly relaxed and laid-back, I think we were all surprised. We just talked and laughed ourselves silly. And that's saying something, considering the super-cool gift we brought...

That would be the stomach flu.

Oh yeah! Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like spreading the joys of puking all night.

In our short time there we managed to spread the love from Hyrum to Andrea to Maggie to Mark to Caleb to me and to Tracy.

But before all that...fun...we were able to squeeze in some goodtime down town.

The kids absolutely loved, and yet were completely freaked out by the huge, moving dinosaur.

We attempted going to the Alamo, but it was closed for the holiday. Poor Mark. Two trips there now and still hasn't seen it!

We did manage to get some good peeks inside and got a very animated re-telling of the story from an off-duty tour guide.

The kids LOVED hanging together.

So. Dang. Cute.

Dawn was so great with the kids, and they all loved her.

On Christmas Eve, in all their new Christmas jammies, they all piled on her lap while she read stories to them.

Christmas morning!!

Thank you Davidsons!

Thank you Hawses!

We had such a blast. We should do it again some time... minus all the sick, of course.