Saturday, January 3, 2009

Christmas Roadtrip!

Well, that's pretty much how I would explain our Christmas. Since we live in Houston, we get to drive many miles to see family at Christmas time. We started a few weeks early and went to see Meems & Peeps in Colorado City, Texas. Peeps is Stevie's Dad. The girls love playing on the staircase with Peeps. The next weekend, Stevie's Mom and Stepdad came to see us! We love it when we have visitors....especially Nana and Papa. We watched the Cowboys that weekend, too. Nana and Papa are huge fans.We stayed home and waited for Santa on Christmas Eve. Morgan is a strong believer in the Santa Claus! He surely didn't let her down. They opened presents first thing Christmas morning and then we were off to Grandpa Sammy & Grandma Louwyns. (My parents house in Drippin')
Christmas with the Alba Family is crazy. There is always fifty or more family members eating, giving presents and enjoying the company. My Grandparents, the Dalleys, were there also. And I'm not sure why my Uncle Lino had his gun with him. But, you know I had to take a picture of it!We spent the night at my Mom's and left the next day for DeLeon, Texas. (I didn't take a picture of the girls on the road that day....or I would have felt the need to add it here!) Stevie's Grandma and Grandpa live there. Christmas here is pretty exciting also. Steve's Mom is one of six children. Mamaw has her gathering every year and it is very special to us.
The girls were playing leap frog at 11 PM. Morgan was wearing her new princess costume from Maw! After it was all said and done, we did have a Merry Christmas. All of our family is doing as well as can be expected. We love being able to go see all of them during the holidays. Wish we could see most of them alot more. Perhaps.....they could come see us!?!??!

1 comment:

Randy, Kristen, Ben, and Logan Hood said...

Mary Ann! Loved all the Christmas photos...would have loved to see a pic of "Mr. Dalley"! (Will never forget his hammer on the bus!) Loved the gun pic too! ha! Nothing like some good 'ole Texas Christmas with a random hunting gun around! We would be a redneck if...your uncle carries his gun around on Christmas day! :-) Honey, this gave me a good laugh!