Cousins at Christmas

During the holidays we get a chance to see family members we don't see as often as we'd like.

Since we were driving to Louisiana my Mom offered to keep Leo. She was also keeping Sadie, Leo's cousin (Brian and Jamie's black lab). The puppies humored me and wore red bows and posed for this holiday shot.

Canine Cousins at Christmas

Connor and Chloe got the chance to play with the Swan cousins while we were visiting for the holidays. Here's a shot of everyone.

Sadie is the young lady on the couch with the pink tights, green dress, and mad expression. Although you might not know if from this picture, she was festive and fun all night. So much fun Connor followed her everywhere and did everything she did. Needless to say he had a little crush on Sadie.

It's so fun to see your cousins at Christmas!

Simple Toys

This year the kids received so many really fun toys. I'm actually a bit embarrassed at everything they opened.

One of the really cool gifts were the leap frog toys. Cousins from our Christmas Eve party gave each of the twins their own leap frog leap pad, it's like a mini lap top and Carl had to sync it to a computer before they kids could use it. When the leap pad is started up it says each of their names, too cool.

My Mom also got them an electronic leap frog toy that lights up and shows you how to trace numbers and letters. All of these were great on the car trip to help distract for a little while.

What kills me is once we get to JoJo's they discovered this wooden toy and nothing else existed.

Traveling on Christmas

I think I tried to cram too much in too quickly this holiday season. We went to a fun Christmas eve party, the kids had a blast and stayed up too late. We were hoping they'd sleep a little later, but no such luck.

We had family over Christmas morning for a yummy brunch and then when it was nap time we headed out to see Carl's side of the family. I thought it'd be great to see both families on Christmas day but it wasn't really a very good plan.

Chloe busted her lip right before we left and cried until she fell asleep. They both slept well in the car for the first few hours.

The problem was it's about a 7 hour drive, and on Christmas day the only place to stop and take a break is at yucky gas stations. We were all ready to get out of the van when we arrived in New Iberia at 8:30pm.

I gave the kids a quick bath, but it still took another 45 minutes for Chloe to really settle down and let me put her in bed.

Once again we thought maybe they'd sleep late since they were up two nights in a row past bedtime, but of course, they were up 30 minutes early this morning.

The traveling sucked, but they're already having fun and playing with everything this morning. I'll plan better next time.