Our 4 Christmases in Texas

This was an unusual year. We actually celebrate Christmas with everyone this year. Well, we are not sure if we get credit for a few of them since they were not technically on Christmas Day but we tried.

Christmas #1

On Sunday morning, we went to church with my mom and dad. They have started going to a church in their small community that meets at the old Carbon school. The Carbon school closed back in 1987 (?). I attended K-6th grade there, and my mom taught their for 13 year (I think ?). It was weird to see how everything had changed. After church, we went to my parents house for lunch and presents. The kids had fun opening their gifts from Grammy and Papa. JM did a little computer work for my mom. We hope we did not mess up her computer routine too much!!!! :0)

We all enjoyed a relaxing afternoon. Well, I think we all did. I really do not know because I fell asleep at some point!! I know the kids did get to ride the 4-wheeler for a while! As Lauren told us, 1 day is just not enough time at Grammy's house to get everything done.

Grammy took all the kids to the movie in Eastland on Sunday night. They saw "The Princess and The Frog" while JM and I went on a date. It is nice that my parents never complain when we just want to have a little time to ourselves. They will always step up and take care of the kids for us! We had a very simple date night in our hometown. We went to Wal-Mart. We ate at DQ--until we realized that the Survivor Finale was on and decided to take it to go. Then we went to the hotel to finish our burgers and Survivor....alone. The kids all spent the night with Grammy and Papa.

On Monday morning, we went back out to my parents house to get the kids, do some laundry, pack up gifts, and visit. We got some really good pics before we left.

Christmas #2

Monday afternoon we went to JM's mother's house. The kids enjoyed crafting and playing. We went out to eat for pizza that night. Then we came back to her house to open gifts.

Christmas #3

On Tuesday morning, JM took the kids over to his mothers' house to play for an hour or so while we packed up the hotel. It was hard to get everything back into the bags for the airplane, but we did it by buying an extra backpack!!!

We met them for lunch, and then we went over to Memom and Great Gran's house to see them before we left town.

Christmas #4

After we left the great-grandparents, we drove on to Dallas (or Keller) to visit Aunt Bethann, Macon and Hannahgrace. The kids had fun playing together all afternoon. We ended up at Chuck E. Cheese for dinner and fun to finish up the evening.

We spent the night in a hotel close to the airport. We got to sleep late and then go directly to the airport to catch our 11 am flight. We will be back to Montgomery by this afternoon.