Our Christmas vacation started on December 22nd with school cancelling that day.  The kids last day was supposed to be on the 23rd so we were going to leave for Florida after they got home that day, but our plans were changed, just a bit!  And since it was, we decided to try to get out of town before the really bad weather hit, so we packed up the Durango, and I mean "packed!!" and headed south, very slowly!  It tooks over 3 hours just to get to Cincinnati and 20 hours all together to get to Grandma and Grandpa's which usually only takes about 16.

Christmas Eve, ready for bed and Santa to arrive!

Courtney and Kelsey (& Jalen too!) chose to go to Build-A-Bear to celebrate their birthday while we were in Florida with the gift cards that their good friend Samantha Cremer gave them and also the birthday money that Grandma & Grandpa Blythe gave them!  It was a fun day!  They each chose an animal to stuff and then I had already gotten them outfits to dress them in for an extra birthday present.  A Jasmine one for Courtney and a Tinkerbell one for Kelsey, their favorite Disney characters, which they both dressed on the white kitten they picked out.  Also, Jalen picked a monkey and dressed him like Woody from Toy Story, very cute!

This is one of the photos that I took of the kids for our Chirstmas Cards.  It was taken at the Christmas tree farm when we were picking out our Christmas tree.