Christmas 2013: Grammy & Grampy's

On Friday the 20th, we loaded up Derek's truck & headed to Grammy & Grampy's house! It was a whirlwind of a trip--Christmas at Grammy & Grampy's on Saturday, BooBoo & Pop-Pop's on Saturday, Granddad & Grandma's on Monday, and then back to Biloxi on Tuesday (Christmas Eve) morning! It was exhausting, but super fun!

Derek & I both felt really conflicted about how/where we wanted to spend Christmas this year. This was the first year since having kids that Derek had ample time off from work for us to be able to really do whatever we wanted as far as travel was concerned. Part of us wanted to spend Christmas in Georgia with our family, but the other part of us wanted to spend Christmas in our own house creating our own memories. All of my childhood memories of Christmas are of traveling to St. Louis and all of Derek's are of Christmases in his own house--we are still trying to shape our own family's traditions. This year, we tried to have the best of both worlds by spending a few days in GA before Christmas and then coming back to Biloxi for Christmas Eve & Christmas Day to be in our own house.

We took TONS of pictures between 3 family Christmas celebrations and then our little family's Christmas Eve & Christmas Day. We'll start off with Grammy & Grampy's....

Making cookies with Grammy!

Shelby loved lookint at all of the ornaments on their tree :)

Opening presents :)

Our gift to Emi & Chris--a "house divided" wreath :)

Hadley's First Christmas!
She loved all of the boxes, paper, & bows!!!

Grammy & Grampy showing off their calendars from us! :)
And Hadley showing off a box she got her hands on ;)

Shelby & Hadley got a wagon from G&G! They both LOVE it!

Decorating cookies :)

Watching a movie with Grampy before bed

Bathtime at G&G's house....Shelby pretending to be Santa ;)

Playtime with Grammy :)

We had so much fun making holiday memories & celebrating Christmas with Grammy, Grampy, Auntie Em, & Chris!! Next up...pictures from Christmas at BooBoo & Pop-Pop's house!