Christmas!

 My mom took all the grand kids, along with my sister-in-law Katie and myself, out to Ledbetter to see the Trail of Lights, it was AWESOME!  We went out to camp Tejas last year to see the lights and Colton and I just weren't that impressed.  Ledbetter really gears theirs towards the "traditional" Christmas with the hay ride pulled by the old tractor, having hot chocolate in a house built in the 1900's and just all around a great family atmosphere.  I'll definitely be taking Korbyn back to that one next year.  Who knows...I may have found another tradition I want to keep :)

 These are all a hodge podge of pictures from our different Christmas outings, so do your best to follow along!

 My aunt took a picture of Korbyn and myself when we were at my aunt's house for the Boriack Christmas, now it's my favorite picture of the two of us.

 Every Christmas Eve we go over to my grandma Boriack's house.  There's no gifts, just food and family.  Kyndal and Korbyn are second cousins and they're in the same class at school.  After they saw each other they were connected at the hip all night.

 Christmas morning finally came!  The night before, we put out our key for Santa since we don't have a chimney.  Uncle Mark and Aunt Jana gave us a Santa key last year.  Korbyn really seemed to understand that we had to hang the key on the doorknob outside so Santa could come in later to bring all her gifts.  She actually hung it on the door herself.  We then laid out cookies and milk for Santa.  After our bath and before going to bed she was so worried about Santa's key and his cookies and milk that we had to check on them one more time.  The next morning Colton and I were both up before Korbyn and couldn't wait any longer.  We went to wake her up and the first thing out of her mouth was "Santa!  Key?  Cookies?"  We couldn't believe she remembered!!!  We went into the living room to find that Santa ate his cookies and drank his milk.  Not only did he drink it, but our OCD daughter noticed that he spilled some of his milk too.

 She had so much fun opening her presents.  Each time she would open one she would say "OOOOOO!"  And all her presents had to be stacked in one pile and the trash picked up before going to the next one.

 What the heck Santa?!  Why in the world would you give a two year old SO many little pieces?!?! ;)

 Then we headed over to nanny and papaw's house (where apparently I forgot to take pictures) and then went over to memaw and papaw's.  I've waited so long to see sweet baby Alysse and I couldn't even hold her because I wasn't feeling well and didn't want to chance passing anything along to her.  I was SO disappointed, but at Easter that sweet baby is mine!

 Korbyn was extremely excited to get all the presents that she opened.  She got a new frog blanket and pillow set for school, or as she calls it her "rog."  She also got a tricycle!  She can't peddle quite yet, but we've been practicing a lot inside the house.

 She got a doll house too.  It came with a lot of pieces (thanks memaw!) but she knows to put them back in the plastic bag that I designated to hold all of them in.  I know exactly what she's about to start playing with when I hear all the pieces hit the floor.  It's really fun to sit down and play it with her though.

 Then we were at my parents a few nights later.  Kaylene and Korbyn got a hold of my phone and were taking pictures of themselves.  Korbyn is still infatuated with Kaylene, they're best buds.

 They were back in the play room and Cody and Noah were playing "Gangnam style" on a phone and Kaylene was teaching Korbyn the dance, which she was actually doing!  It was so funny.

 Korbyn and uncle Cody.

 Korbyn saw memaw at the sink and immediately grabbed the stool and said "I help wash dishes!"

 When I got to my parents house my mom gave me the task of hanging up all 16 stockings.  I actually had to get a ruler out and measure for all those things!

 And of course the group picture before opening presents is never easy.  If you look at the top picture, the younger girls are upset because they didn't get to hold Korbyn.  Then in the bottom picture the older girls are upset because they didn't get to hold Korbyn.  The boys are smiling so good, they don't care who holds Korbyn they just want to open presents.  And poor Korbyn doesn't even know what's going on, half of the pictures she has her finger up her nose!

 Korbyn got a Dora table and chair set and a fishin' game which she constantly wants to play.  By the end of the evening my dad had somehow managed to talk me into playing the piano so everyone could sing some Christmas carols, still not sure how that happened.

When we got home, she had to get in her "ork."  It's a pop up tent that we call her fort, she can't really pronounce her "f's" yet, so it comes out ork.  The other day she told me it was a cave and she was the nice monster that lived in it.  We had a great Christmas this year, it was fun and super busy like always!