Christmas in Bama

There's no place like home! There's just something about being in the house where you grew up. It's so nice and familiar and cozy. I love bringing my family there! We left the day after Christmas as soon as church was over to head up to Alabama to spend a week with my family. The girls were thrilled that we had snow flurries for nearly the entire ride - yes, even in Lake City! It had flurried all morning as we got ready to go to church. I kept trying to get a picture of it to prove that we really saw snow in Florida. This picture of a single snow flake on our black mailbox is the best I got, lol.


On that Sunday, we drove as far as Montgomery to Ma-don's house and met my parents there. We exchanged gifts with Ma-don and enjoyed a delicious meal with her.




The girls even had time to watch a Shirley Temple movie with Ma-don!


The next day, we drove to Mama and Daddy's house and got settled in there. We rested up for a day trip to Lindsey's and Chris's house the next day. They still had snow on the ground in a small spot behind their house and the girls had a blast playing in in for a bit. It was Elianna's first time to see snow.


We exchanged gifts with Mama, Daddy, Lindsey, Chris, Max and Trista. It was a great day and the girls got some wonderful things!


One of the gifts was Just Dance Kids for the Wii. We had a big laugh watching each other play that!


Max and Trista with their gifts from us.


Mama and Daddy with their gifts from us.


Lindsey and Chris with their gifts from us - have I mentioned here that Linny is pregant? Their baby is due June 6th and we are SO excited about it! We gave them Auburn and Alabama baby caps for the baby to wear next football season.


Wednesday, we got our nails done with some gift certificates from Granda. The girls LOVED that!



That night, Uncle Doug and Aunt Becky came over with Morgan and Nathan. They brought Johnny (Doug and Daddy's stepdad) with them and Elianna found a new friend.




Thursday was a fun day. We baked cookies with colorful cookie dough, made bead necklaces, and went to the movies to see Yogi Bear (another gift card gift!)



Thursday night, we went to Max and Trista's house to see the work Max has done on his basement. It looks GREAT! I can't believe he has been able to do it himself.


Friday was the day that the big girls had been looking forward to for a long time! Me, Mama and Lindsey went shopping all day! We had a great time! I didn't take my camera to get pictures of that, but I'm sure you see plenty of pictures of things we bought in the months to come!
Friday night, we celebrated New Year's Eve. We celebrated abound 7ish and it was a little rainy. But we didn't let that stop us. We had a great time bringing in the new year!


Saturday was spent at Mama and Daddy's house and we enjoyed a delicious meal.


Trista and her Mama got to come over too.


Sunday was travel day, unfortunately. It was time to get back to reality. But first we got to worship in church with our whole family. It was very special.

We hated to leave everyone, but are already looking forward to seeing them all again - hopefully soon!