Christmas Spirit

Our 2016 Christmas was fast and furious! We managed to pack in all of our usual fun activities, and then we took it to the next level with even more fun. Here's a quick recap of a few days leading up to Christmas.

First up, our annual trip to the Dallas area to visit my besties and their families. This year we had the privilege of staying with Amanda at her brand new home in the Fort Worth area after their move back to Texas from Virginia. What a blessing to have her in our home state again! We had such a great time catching up and celebrating with the families.

Best friends since high school.

Love these girls of mine so much!

Here we were teaching the kids how to play the new Saran Wrap game.

It was a total hit!

From Dallas, we drove to the White Oak area for our annual Morgan family Christmas celebration. As usual, we had a blast seeing and catching up with family. Lots of presents and yummy food! I only managed a couple of random photos, though.

Cousins about to unwrap some gifts.

Connor was super excited about this gift!

Can you believe those are the only photos I took from the extended family celebration? Oops! We were in a rush to get back to the Houston area, because our beloved Texans team was playing a primetime game on Christmas Eve. Jeff took the kids to the game, and then everyone came back home just in time to get all ready for Santa's visit.

Kaitlynn setting out the cookies and chocolate milk for Santa and the carrots for the reindeer.

The big haul. Santa was here!!

Kaitlynn loved her new bike equipped with a doll carrier for her beloved American Girl dolls!

Back inside, there were more presents to unwrap.

I didn't manage to get any photos of our Christmas Eve Texans game nor did I manage any family photos of the 6 of us celebrating Christmas together. I am seriously losing my touch!

But I would soon make up for it, as we were about to wrap up the Christmas season and kick off the new year in a MAJOR way!