…and we’re back. Again. We spent a long weekend back in Maryland/Pennsylvania visiting family for Christmas. It was a whirlwind of Christmas parties. Friday night we had dinner/presents with my mom’s dad. Saturday we had lunch/presents with my dad’s family. Sunday was spent with the rest of my mom’s family. My favorite moments:
- The kids playing Twister Friday night. My cousin was twisted up and looked like a pretzel on the board.
- The kids playing Hedbanz and everyone getting a good laugh when I got the “I am a pig” card.
- Having a wonderful breakfast made from our hosts so I didn’t have to worry about it.
- Our hosts having special Christmas presents for the girls.
- Getting to meet my cousin’s new little baby and remembering what it feels like to hold a sleeping baby while you eat and telling your birth story ad nauseum.
- Realizing we have two new husbands and one new baby since last Christmas. No boyfriends this year at Christmas!
- Having my grandmother healthy and happy after getting cleared from breast cancer this year.
- Eating a steak sub from D’Atri’s.
- Having Lexi pick up a napkin and try to wipe my hands clean from the messiness of the steak sub.
- Seeing my cousin’s little toddler toddle around and remember what it’s like to have to follow them around every single second.
- And then remember what it’s like for your kids to still have nap time.
- Seeing the kids presents all in stacks, just like we used to.
- Getting a set of my great-grandmother’s dishes from my aunt with homemade cookies on them.
- Playing with my uncle’s iPad. And loving it but still being ok that I don’t have one.
- SNOW TUBING with my family, parents, sister and uncle’s family. The best fun in a really long time. Please see videos below!
- A really, really quiet ride home.
It was a really fantastic weekend.
So this snow tubing…you’ve gotta do it! It takes absolutely no skill whatsoever, it’s fast and fun!
This is me and Emma going down the hill:
It looks slow until you’re on it! Here is Scott and Emma going down:
It’s a must, must do!
Hope your Christmas weeks are going well!
that looks fun cant ait for my xmas we have 2 days of it with my dads family on sat and my mums family coming for lunch at our house as well for the 2 days its giong to be hetic but fun
I’m so glad y’all had such a fabulous time! Oh, and we have a snow tubing place ten minutes from my house. It’s the bomb.com and I’m psyched you got to do it! 🙂
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Amy, you look hilarious with all those layers! It looks like you could take on Scott. 🙂
I take the kids snow tubing every year – it’s fun to have an activity that even the little ones can do and that big kids enjoy more each year as they are allowed to go down the longer tracks. The place we go to even has a tow-rope that pulls you back up the hill; you just sit in the inner-tube. I love it!
I’m telling you, though, it was worth it…I was WARM!
This one also had a track that pulled you up the hill. Like those moving escalator things at an airport but headed straight up the hill!
I should probably look into changing the Lucas and Peyton avatar – it’s a little outdated!