Month-long Christmas

We were fortunate enough this year that Christopher's school schedule allowed us to visit both families and take almost a month of vacation for Christmas.  We traveled over to Bellingham to see his parents since his dad got a week off in December; and Kelsey was thinking along the same lines and came over with Crew.  We were so excited to meet Crew and have some cousin hangout.

If you can't tell from the pictures,although he is 3 months older, Crew is quite the big boy. It was nice to have the comparison and feel like Mason was a little baby again.

We had a small Christmas with both the Burley grandparents and his immediate family. It was so nice to see all of the baby cousins together and we can't wait till next year with all of them, it's going to be FUN!!

After about a week or so we flew down to see my family.  We had such a fun time my mom planned out he whole week of Christmas with activities for us to do.  Some of the things we did were make cookies, and candy. I successfully made english toffee, which because I've cut dairy out of my diet for Mason's sensitive stomach I didn't get to eat any...BUT  Melissa made molasses cookies which I almost single handedly consumed in less than three days.  Other activities included...

Making gingerbread houses...

Playing a super awesome game of Minute to Win It....

Seeing my mom's family...

Visiting friends from college...

Watching a performance of the nativity...

Taking pics of the cousins in Grandma's cute outfit coordinated clothes...

Opening presents...

Playing some volleyball...with some basketball during take-down...

Going to Leatherby's...

Celebrating a birthday with cake and ice-skating...

And of course seeing Santa.

Christmas vacation was absolutely a blast!!!  We were so glad to see everyone this holiday season and grateful for the friends and family we have to share it with.