Christmas Eve

So as most of you all know we spent Christmas in NY with my Dad's side of the family. So you will be seeing plenty of posts from the trip. My camera is having difficulties, so I got some pic CD's from my dad. Anyway, We arrived on Dec 23rd after a long day of flying. But the kids were awesome on the plane. Treking Hope in arms through 40 gates in the Denver airport b/c we had 20 min to make it to the next flight was a little stressful, but we made it. We got our rental cars...Ours was a convertable seebring b/c that's what every family of four needs in NYC in the middle of a snow storm. Hey but it worked! We ended the day eating pizza with my Aunt, uncles, and cousins. It was delicious! Nothing like NY pizza.
On Christmas eve we spent the morning at the four story palisades mall shopping for Christmas gifts for the kids b/c the box I shipped with ALL their presents two weeks ago never arrived!!!! Fun Times! Then we spent the evening at my Aunt Laureens having a P.J. party and eating goodies and playing games. My Aunt makes the most delicious chocolate chip coffee cake. It was so good, but it was the start of the allergic reactions. Hope picked up a fork off the table that had been placed in the coffee cake, so she started with hives all over her butt then back, then face, then we Benadryl'd her and she finally fell asleep two hours later. It was craziness. My poor baby! We played Battle of the sexes and of course the feminine men won. Seriously a little freaky when your cousin and Uncle know soooo much female stuff like "watching Steel Magnolis in a half slip!" We had so much fun, laughing and joking around. We ended the night wrapping presents for the kids. It was so nice to be with the family. We haven't been in Five years! Here is a slideshow of Christmas Eve! There are plenty more posts to come about our trip!