Christmas came and went and didn't say goodbye...

We had a wonderful Christmas break! The most enjoyable, besides the obvious of having my hubs home for a couple of weeks (GLORY HALLELUJAH!!!), was our travels to see families. We stayed here until Christmas day (of which I got no pics on Christmas morning....how did that happen?) and then headed off to Nashville for a couple of days and then Marietta for a week.

The logistics of traveling were pretty crazy and we definitely looked like the Clampets coming to town, but the kiddos did great and we wouldn't have wanted to miss out on seeing the fams.

The Dynamic Duo enjoyed their very first Christmas, but especially loved being held and snuggled by so many different people who love them. And Mommy and Daddy enjoyed leaving them with those people so we could sneak out a few times solo! Woohooooooo! Oh the little things....

Here's the original 5 of the Gillis clan...

...that somehow morphed into 15 in the blink of an eye...

Buster and his sweet cousin of the same age...

Aunt SuSu working the crowd of a niece, a couple of nephews and a few of my own...

Ahhhhhh, time spent with best buds. Adult conversation? What's that?? Wait, this is Alicia we're talking about. No adult conversation because we're still in 6th grade!

Let me just say my kids are blessed to have 2 great-grandmothers who love them so much! Don't they look great? Here's Mama Dot with her brown eyed boy...

Memomma and her grandchildren...

Christmas Eve in all their fanciness...

Buster Boy looking fly...

Big Sis pretty as ever...

And the Dynamic Duo on their 1st Christmas. Our lives are forever changed for the better because of these 2 joining us this year...

Next time, Christmas, could you at least tell us goodbye? You're just too fast.