CHRISTMAS IN ARIZONA

Our Little Christmas Tree

We had the chance to meet Trevor's whole family in Arizona for Christmas! Trevor's sister Emily and her family was so nice to invite all of us and our families to stay with them in their home. We all had one bedroom for our whole family to sleep in with Grandpa and Grandma Carol in the living room. There was 26 of us stuffed in her little house and it was so much fun!! The cousins LOVED playing together even after a week they were as happy as could be with each other, such good buddies. It was so fun to watch the kids play and have such a good time together!! We really enjoyed getting to visit each night with all the adults while the little ones slept. Thank you to Matt, Emily and their sweet little kids for letting us all take over your house and so generous in letting us use all of your things and sharing your toys so well with all of the kids. We hope we didn't do to much damage!! We already miss everyone!! The pictures below are the present from Grandma and Grandpa for all of the grand kids, it is a really cool place called, "RIDE MAKERS," the kids all got to pick out a car body and wheels and any little dadoes you want to put on your cars and then you get to put them together right there. It was a huge hit!! The kids loved them!!

Trevor was able to take a trip with the boys and go shooting!! He loved it and I am so glad he was able to go do something fun for just him with some guys!! He hasn't made many buddies here in Texas yet, so he was in need of some male bonding!!

On Christmas Eve we were able to go and hike the White Tank Mountain with the family and it was a lot of fun and the kids loved it!! It was fun to see all the really big cactus up close. We did it last year on Christmas Eve, too.

Mason loved his cousin Carson who was so good with him and always helping him with what ever he needed or wanted. It was so fun to watch them.

Garrett's favorite cousin is Nate.

Porter loved playing with Bailey and I saw them together a lot but he says his favorite cousin is Robby.

Brody loved Scout the dog and loved anyone who would play catch with him!!

The Whole family......All the cousins watching a little show to get calm down for playing Christmas songs on the chimes...Grandpa reading about the Nativity, he even had real frankincense and myrrh and warmed them up on a hot coal so all the kids could smell them.Porter thought the frankincense and myrrh was smelly!! He kept plugging his nose, silly guy!!Christmas morning we had the kids open their stockings in the little room we were staying in so we could get the full affect of their reactions, they are so much fun!!Porter & Mason got just what they asked for Scary Pirates!!When we let the kids out to go open the rest of their presents they were so excited to go and show everyone what they got in their stockings!! =)Porter wrote Santa and asked for a scary pirate ship and scary pirates.Mason asked for the same as Porter. They are such good buddies and love playing pirates while Garrett is at school.Garrett asked Santa for a remote control car and walkie talkies.Brody has a HUGE fascination with balls. I know most kids probably do and I know all the rest of my boys did but not quite like this little man. He is so cute about it so you guessed it he got a couple of balls and a tool box.All of the cousins on Christmas morning. They were all so good about sharing all of their Christmas presents with each other, I was really amazed at how well all of them treated each other!! Talk about some GREAT KIDS!!