I know I am pretty behind with posting Christmas but things have been busy since the 23rd when we packed up the car and headed to visit my brother and family in Fayetteville, AR. My parents left the day before us and joined us for our first full Adams Family Christmas in about 6 years. Unfortunately within 30 minutes of us getting out of the car (after Ella did fabulous for all 6 hours) she started running a 102 fever and was MISERABLE! We pumped her as full of Motrin as we could and somehow we survived, but she missed out on all of our activities on Christmas Eve. Luckily Keith was great and stayed with her while we all went to the Crystal Bridges Museum, Christmas Eve Service and dinner.
Though after we got back from those activties, someone had perked up a bit and things started to get crazy!
Austin loves the Toy Story triology so Woody (Austin) and Jessie (Ella) had to take a ride on Bullseye (Shawn). They were having a great time. Granny had bought them matching PJs and this was the best picture we got of them.
Shortly after the ride on Bullseye it was time for everyone to get some sleep so Santa could come... he left quite the loot for the little ones!
All of Ella Kate's Santa loot!
Austin must have been REALLY good this year!
Ella wasn't really sure what was going on Christmas morning, but luckily her fever had broken during the night so she was in a much better mood when she woke up. She loved playing with her new toys and even got into opening presents too! It was so neat to have her trying to rip off the paper this year.
Austin and Ella Kate had a great time playing with Ella's new Rock N Roll Elmo together!
They loved playing with her new pots and pans from Granny and Papi too!
Everyone enjoyed playing with Austin's new Toy Story Connect 4!
And the games got really intense at times!
When we went to Hot Springs over Memorial Day weekend, Ella had such a great time riding around on the back of Austin's John Deer tractor, so of course we had to take a few rides around yard on Christmas Day! She loved it just as much this time around as last. Well except for when Austin took a sharp turn and flipped the cart!
We even switched roles around for a little bit! Ok Ella never really drove, but she sure wanted to!
We even played a little King of the Mountain with Granny!
We didn't let Granny have all of the fun with the grandkids though! Papi got in on a pretty intense game of Connect 4!
Each year, the city of Fayetteville lights up their entire town square and has pony rides, carriage rides, and other fun activities. We wanted to make a trip out there before Christmas, but with Ella getting sick, we had to wait until Tuesday night to take a stroll down there.
Ella got to take a ride on her first ever pony and even though she wasn't sure about it at first, she really warmed up to it after a few times around.
Austin of course absolutely loved it!
Her little face just cracks me up! Can't you tell she really isn't sure what is going on!
Austin, my brother, and SIL. Such a cute little family! As usual we did not get one family picture the whole 5 days we were there!
This is what happens when you try to get a picture of the grandparents and their grandkids!
Take two wasn't much better!
We had a great time with the family and have our fingers crossed that everyone will join us in Tyler for Thanksgiving next year!
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