Saturday, January 8, 2011

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year


We had a wonderful Christmas and New Years this year! We were able to see almost all of both of our families! What a great way to spend the holidays! We spent Christmas Eve eating our traditional finger foods, reenacting the Christmas story from Luke 2, and doing a few Christmas trivia games!

Travis and I were Mary and Joseph, Melia was baby Jesus,
and Oliver and Gabriella were shepherds

The shepherds coming to see Baby Jesus

We carried on another tradition of wearing matching Christmas jammies. The sisters all wore matching ones, and the cousins did too!

Emily had matching pants too, but hadn't gotten back from her honeymoon yet!

What cute cousins!

Me and baby girl in our Christmas jammies

Daddy with his little girl!

Having fun on Christmas Eve!

Ready for Santa to come!

We had Christmas morning with my whole family there! Emily and Bossy got in at 2am from their honeymoon in Jamaica! We were so glad we got to spend Christmas morning with everyone!

McKinley excited about her first Christmas :)

Opening presents for McKinley

A new basketball for Travis

Some new boots for McKinley

Happy that Santa brought her some new toys in her stocking!

All the sisters together on Christmas! Here we are in our matching Christmas Bucees shirts

All the girls and our families, minus Melia who was napping at the time

We had a wonderful Christmas! We got a fun new Flip camera from my parents which we've used to take a bunch of cute videos of McKinley! Expect to see those on here soon :) We then got to spend a few more days in Texas with everyone! Which was of course a lot of fun! Travis got to go golfing with my dad and Bossy! Something most people don't usually do in December! I had fun with the girls doing our hair and getting pedicure and of course shopping!

We then headed up to St. Louis to meet up with Travis's family. All of his family was there minus one of his brother. It was so fun to see everyone and hang out in another full house! We got to go see Tron while we were there, McKinley's first movie. She did really well during it! She slept for the first hour, then ate and watched the movie the second! She did so good, so we were actually able to enjoy the movie :) We of course watched a lot of movies in St. Louis, played some games, went shopping some more and played traditional Bingo. We always play Bingo on New Year's Eve, a Hulse tradition. So it was fun to be there for that! We had a wonderful time with our families. It's so fun to show McKinley off to everyone and to have lots of people who want to hold her! It was nice to get a little break :)

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