Traveling for the holidays

The weekend before Christmas, we always pack up and head to Tulsa for the holiday festivities with Christian's side of the family.

The cousins all love each other to pieces and have so much fun being silly together. And Sis enjoyed watching all they did.

She was walking all over the place, following the bigger kids around.

This is the first time Morgan and Chapman have been together where they have been walking. Chapman started walking several weeks before Morgan, so he had already progressed to VERY fast walking and climbing!

Morgan was right there beside him trying to keep up though.

When we all woke up the next morning, we stayed in our pjs and headed off to the donut store as the tradition was continued!

The boys were super excited to be back together and playing again.

They critiqued all the donuts and finally chose the ones they wanted.

This is absolutely the best donut store ever! They make the coolest donuts! They had a ton of Christmas ones-presents, candles, snowmen, santas, mittens, and stockings.

These were the ones that the kids chose. Great choices, huh?!

Sis was unsure about the messy icing on her hands at first.

But after she tasted it, all of those thoughts subsided and she loved every bit of the mess and taste!

Next was time to decorate some cookies!

Major and I made the colorful icings...

And there were lots of shapes of the sugar cookies to chose from.

There were a lot of cookies, so we started off right away.

Mason was the designated sprinkler.

It was a big mess, but a lot of fun!

Next, Mason and Daddy went downstairs to put the train together. Every year they have a great time doing that little project together.

They were hard at work.

Once they got the tracks together and around the tree, Mason started hooping and hollering all excited.

Morgan woke up from her nap and came to join the fun.

She liked the little reindeer on the sleigh.

Final touches...

Then there it went! Mason slapped his hand over his mouth with excitement!

Then it was time to get all prettied up for the Christmas party!

My kids were so adorable, as always!

Grandmother Thomas had the gumdrop tree for the kids again. They were very particular on which ornament they chose.

Sis loved her little teddy bear that Grandmother set aside for her.

We ate until our bellies were stuffed and chatted up a storm with everyone.

Mason was a huge help during Dirty Santa.

Mason thought it was hilarious when anyone would steal the other's gift!

Our little crew was whooped by the end of the weekend, but we had such a great time!