Tennessee Christmas

We had an exciting whirlwind tour of TN for Christmas! The girls had so much fun seeing everyone, opening presents, and playing with cousins (and cousins toys!). They really did great with all of our traveling..including Knoxville, an overnight in Nashville, and a last minute quick stop in Chattanooga.

The girls having fun playing with the UT beach ball..

Savannah kept trying to arrange Minde and James's candles in their windows for them. She also loved to go in to the office with french doors and open and shut the doors. Two very fun but not so helpful things to do...

Savannah and Aunt Minde
Reading with Mimi
A visit from Santa!
Notice Savannah quickly heading in the opposite direction... and Skylar was so excited to see Santa and was waving to him saying Ho Ho Ho..
Santa brought presents for all the girls...




Aunt Lori and Uncle Jack with Santa
Playing with the new princess dolls from Santa
Christmas with Ty's family on Christmas Eve..
Caroline is excited to open presents!

New easel from Mimi!
Lori and Jack got the girls a cute bowling set. We were showing Savannah how to play- she rolled the ball and knocked a few down so we clapped and everything- then she picked the ball up and walked over to all the pins and in a clean sweep knocked them all down with the ball still in her hands. She was like- I have an easier way of knocking pins down! :)


Christmas Eve afternoon we drove to Nashville. Ryan and Jenny are in the middle of renovating a beautiful old house. It was the first time we had seen it, and it is awesome! They have been working nonstop since August and were sortof crazy but generous to host Christmas for everyone. Here we are Christmas morning waking up to Ben's new toys from Santa.
New kitchen and an Awesome train table...
How cute is Skylar!? Tyler likes to point out that she got her buck teeth from her mama...

Gigi and Grandude with the grandkids

Christmas afternoon we drove through Chattanooga to see Tyler's dad on our way back to Knoxville.

Fun times in the basement with Caroline's new piano mat...

We had a fun trip!

The girls are happy to be home now though, and playing with their new toys and sleeping in their own beds.

Christmas at Home and Santa!

We are headed to TN tomorrow to spend actual Christmas with family, so we celebrated Christmas this morning at home. The girls know about Santa and get excited to see him, but still don't really get the whole Santa comes on Christmas Eve thing. So, we decided we could still travel before they fully understand Santa and have to worry that we will miss him if we aren't home. Gigi got to come in to visit for most of the week and to be here when Santa came. They had such a great morning and loved playing with all of their new toys! The new kitchen from Gigi was a huge hit!

Loving Family Dollhouse

Busy cooking and playing with new puzzles from The Lees

Giant Dora!

Rapunzel! Skylar was so excited to open the huge princess Barbie set...it was the fastest we had ever seen her open a present. She usually just wants us to open gifts for her or lets Savannah help...but as soon as she ripped the first piece of paper and saw Cinderella..she was all over it!

The vacuum was actually a huge hit too- Savannah vacuumed forever this afternoon!

Little People Zoo

KT sent the girls a trampoline for Christmas- how fun!! She got to see how much Savannah loved to jump on the trampoline when she joined us at our Romp and Roll birthday party. Skylar loves it too and was climbing up on it by herself by the end of the day. Thanks KT!

We are headed to Knoxville for Christmas round 2 and to Nashville for round 3!! Lucky girls!