"Ellison Christmas" Festivities!

Merry Christmas Eve!! :)

Too crazy of a day for words... so I'll just post pictures! :) We had SO much fun with my family celebrating Christmas early. We ate yummy food, explored the HUGE Bass Pro Shop that was connected to our hotel, rode the Northern Express "choo-choo" Train, and even saw Santa! We had a great time exploring the Winter Wonderland in the Gaylord Texan... Miniature Trains and Gigantic Trees... the works! The cousins had a great time together, as always. (Even baby Bella Grace who is still "cooking!") :)

I don't have the picture of the entire group together, but here are some of the ones from my camera...

Merry, Merry!

Ahhhh, blogger... my old ball-and-chain...

In so many ways I have NOT missed updating my blog. I haven't missed the maintenance and I've actually enjoyed the extra time. ...Although, somehow extra time never really surfaces but just gets folded into the chaos I guess... Nevertheless, I have no clue when I would have sat down to update the blog over the past few weeks/months so surely that "extra time" I saved was used wisely. (Wink, wink.) But truthfully, I HAVE missed receiving comments from friends and feeling connected through that. So at the request of my sweet Minnesota friend, I will be MUCH more diligent to update this with pictures of our crew!

It's Christmastime. I have tons of pictures... too many to put into one post... but I'll start with these from a Sunday morning attempt at a Christmas Card photo shoot. (Attempting to get a good shot of a 3-yr-old and a 1.5-year-old... sigh.) Sweet kiddos...