Family – Page 50

After Christmas

January 7, 2016

The day after Christmas the fun continued when my brother and his family arrived in Birmingham. The boys were anxiously awaiting Nate and Delaney…

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and we were so glad to have all the cousins together!

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My brother especially loved getting to squeeze on Samantha. I think he wanted to take her home with him!!

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The boys got spoiled all over again…

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and everyone loved getting to hang with the family…

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even if we didn’t win big on the scratch-offs! There’s always next year!

xmas lottery

The next morning we all hit the road to drive 6 hours to Arkansas. We got there late afternoon and went over to John and Cara’s to see the Patterson side of the family! I was so excited for Granddaddy to meet Samantha. Even though her lip is stuck out here, she really did SO well all night despite having only slept about 30 minutes the entire car ride!

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The youngest and oldest! 🙂

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The cousins had fun playing together and Samantha checked out Tucker the dog.

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All the cousins posed together…

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and then we even got them to line up diagonally! 🙂

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Delaney 6, Maxwell 5, Savannah 4, Nate 4, Spencer 3, Walker 2, Samantha (almost) 1!

We then made all the grownup cousins line up too!

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We then gathered all the Patterson boys together…

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and finally, the 3 Maxwells! Maxwell Banks, Audrey Maxwell, and Stephen Maxwell! Quite the trio!

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It was a great trip to see family! See you tomorrow!

Christmas Day

January 6, 2016

After Santa toys were played with and pancakes were eaten, we all got dressed and headed down to Montgomery to spend the day with Robert’s family. The weather was warm and muggy with plenty of rain – not great driving weather but we made it there and back with few issues, thank goodness. There were some tornado warnings for Birmingham that day so we’re thankful we didn’t get caught in any of it!

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The cousins loved playing together…

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and didn’t love posing for our pictures but did it anyway! 🙂

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Samantha loved getting to check out baby Margaret…

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She also loved getting plenty of attention from the grandparents…

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And she especially loved eating anything she could get her hands on including crackers, pancakes, and cake!

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In fact, all the kids enjoyed some cake (and not much else for lunch!) I think!

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The adults had a delicious lunch prepared by LuLu…and some cake too…and some pie! 🙂 Robert and Ronnie obviously texted each other that morning about wearing their dark red checked shirts.

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Granddaddy got the memo too. Twinkies!

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It was a lovely day all around with plenty of fun and hugs!

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Merry Christmas from Montgomery!

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See you tomorrow!

Christmas Eve

January 4, 2016

Happy Monday! Back into the full swing of work – boo. But, who’s ready for some Christmas recaps?! me!

First up? Christmas eve! GJ, Daddo and Susu were all in town and that made it extra fun.

christmas eve

xmas eve

Robert, the kids, and I went to the noon service up at church. We were all looking pretty sharp so I had to get some pictures!

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Love, love this family shot GJ took!

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Please notice the bare legs and sleeveless dress. It was about 75 and muggy! ugh! The boys did great in church. Samantha actually did really well too. She just preferred having me or Robert stand and hold her versus sitting in the pew! 🙂

That night we had a traditional Christmas Eve dinner of burgers 😉 and then opened special presents from GJ and Daddo!

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The boys got new iPads! I helped GJ get them all filled up with new movies, games and apps to play with. I even put a picture of a tiger as Maxwell’s screen saver and a picture of a lion on Spencer’s! They thought that was pretty awesome. We also got them the headphones for when we fly places but they thought they were so cool they just put them on right then!

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It was a wonderful Christmas eve…

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and truly a silent night! 🙂

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Who’s ready for Santa?!!

Dentist, playdates, and NYE

December 31, 2015

Lots of fun stuff happened over the past week or so and I’m just going to go in order to get through it all. First up? The ever so exciting and fun dentist visit! ha!

dentist

On the 21st, the boys had their teeth all checked out and did great…even if Spencer didn’t love getting his teeth cleaned!

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teeth dentist

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Great reports from the dentist are always welcome!

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On the 23rd, Maxwell got to have a little Christmas playdate and Max, James, and Lila came over to play and have lunch. They all had a great time…and especially loved it when Susan popped up some Jiffy Pop for them!

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playdate

They were quite the crew all piled up together on the couch.

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We even got to have our very favorite visitor over for the playdate!

It was a great kick-off to Christmas week! Lots of Christmas pictures to come but I hope you all have a wonderful and safe New Year’s Eve tonight! See you next year!!