We headed north for a Christmas week with my family in Ohio. Thankfully, Evie loves her car seat and was a very good traveler - she slept the whole trip except for when we woke her up to feed her! Something tells me this may be our easiest drive with her ever, but we'll see. :) The week was packed with friends and activities so I'm going to break the trip into a couple posts so no one get too overwhelmed. :)
Here's Evelyn watching patiently while we packed. She's wearing her new little baby cow outfit that her daddy bought for her. The hat cracks me up!
A highlight of the trip was introducing Evie to family members that she hadn't met yet. Here she is with some of them:
Great-Grammy Walker
Great-Grandad Walker
Uncle Chris (Evie adored her Aunt Kate too, I realized though I didn't get any pics of them :()
Cousin Alana
Aunt Katie
Evelyn was also delighted to see some of her old favorites again, Aunt Emily and Aunt Caroline.
Nana and Grandpa were a hit with Evelyn too (of course), but we didn't get very many pictures of them this time. :(
On Christmas Eve Evelyn was pleased to see that she even had her own stocking with her name on it! If you look at an earlier post you'll be able to watch just how much she enjoyed being in her stocking. ;)
We all went to the early Christmas Eve service because of the babies and then went back to my parents for a Christmas eve party and pickle hunt! We sang lots of carols with Katie, Emily, Chris, and Nathan accompanying (at different times, not all at once :)).
Emily and Caroline were singing with their friend Rachel in the 11:00pm service. Chris took a video of it for those of us who couldn't be there. It will be posted once Nathan shows me now. :) For now, here they are practicing to sing before 1,000+ people. Katie also sang with the praise team for the 11:00:
Evelyn slept through most everything.
After our Christmas Eve party we carried all the presents up from the basement. Since there are close to, if not more than 200, we keep them downstairs until Christmas Eve so we don't trip over them in the days leading up to Christmas. :)
Evelyn's favorite part of Christmas morning was the stockings. I think that's because it was the only part she was fully awake for. She fell into an overstimulation-induced sleep for most of the presents. :)
Evie loves the shopping cart that her cousin Alana gave her, although there was some confusion among the cousins as to who it really belonged to. :)
Evelyn was also thrilled with her Hillsdale t-shirt. Thank you, Aunt Katie!!
Alana did super well with all the stimulation and excitement. Finally, however, she got tired and just plopped down on some unopened presents to play with her new monkeys. :) Alana is a very sweet, well-behaved and fun 18 month old! 
It was a wonderful morning as always. It was extra fun to have everyone there this year! It's the first time Chris and I have both been at my parents for Christmas morning since we've both been married. Grammy and Granddad joined us again this year as well which always makes it fun. :) The added element of 2 babies (and 3 next year! ...Kate, NOT me :)) made it all the more exciting and special. :) We were also relieved that no one was in the ER for Christmas morning this year!!!
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