1st Christmas 2017 (St. Joe, Mo)

Like each year... we've made a tradition to get down to St. Joe, Mo to spend some time with Aunt Maagie.  She's a whopping 92 years young, so it's obviously important to get down there to see her.  She's doing well... it's just unfortunate that we (our little families) are just so darn busy, that's it's almost hard to just sit and have a conversation with her.  I feel like we are always tending to something or someone!!  But I know she enjoys watching (and listening) to all the kiddos.  Guess that's all that matters... 

We headed down to St. Joe on Friday morning... got there around lunch time.  The kids were excited to see each other, it had been a very long time!  So we just dove right in...  got settled into the hotel, and let the kids play.  The weather was amazingly warm, so the big boys went outside and played, which was great.  

Soon enough, Aunt Maagie, Jimmy, Diana and Janet joined us... we just visited (as much as we could!), let the kids open their Christmas gifts from Aunt Maagie and Jimmy/Diana... always such nice things...  I think the kids were excited, Xmas came early!  ha.  We ordered pizza in... and just hung out.  The kids got a little owly... so we opted out of swimming (until Saturday morning)...  and they all survived.  ha. 

Bedtime was terrible...  or I should say, overnight stay was terrible.  Awful.  Oh mylanta.  Ryan snores.  Bad...  and typically the kids sleep through it, thankfully - however, not this time.  Kayson struggled BAD - him and I were up for about 3 hours or so... tossing and turning, Kayson got pretty upset at one point as well...  just mad he couldn't sleep, teared up a little and "Dad needs to stop!!"  Poor kid.  Cora was super restless...  but she slept ok.  Pretty frustrating... but the kids did sleep til about 8:15 - K slept hard from 4:50 til about then... so that was good.  (I was a walking zombie this morning!!!)

Anyway...  we grabbed a bite of breakfast, took the kids swimming, got cleaned up, checked out... and went to the Rally House (which seems to be a tradition too!), grabbed lunch, then we were on the road. 

I did snooze on the way home... SO TIRED. 
Anyway, it was a good trip...  good pictures below, and glad the kiddos got to spend time together.  We will see them again soon...  we are hosting Christmas this year.  :)

Several attempts at a pic!

Poor Rhett.  makes me giggle!

and there's the best one!!!

lil misses.  Full of sass!

my birthday present to Aunt Tina.  So perfect. :)

Smiles from the boys.