Christmas vacation

We had a super busy Christmas vacation! But it was also relaxing, fun and full of firsts for Drew. To start with, he got to fly on four airplanes! We had layovers on our way to Indiana and on our way back. On our way to Indiana, we left our house at 7:30am and had some delays and got on our first plane by 12pm - and Drew did so good during the waits (waving at everyone, crawling around, pushing his stroller around, etc), and then he slept on the plane. Then we had about 5 hours at the next airport due to delays! He did really well but was getting bored. He still played and acted silly (entertainging all the other people hanging out at our gate), but was TIRED by the time we boarded the plane. We finally met my parents at the airport around 7:30pm! That was a long day! We got to spend 4 full days with my family - the longest we've been there in a LONG time! Drew was so happy and silly during the day, but struggled at night to sleep. It could have been the foreign bed, too much excitement during the day, or the EIGHTH tooth he decided to grow while we were gone! Some other firsts that Drew experienced were a fire (don't put cardboard in the oven!), a remote control fart machine (thanks, Uncle Ben!), first snow (it flurried in Indiana and then we saw actual snow at the airport in Detroit), and some first attempts at words (bye, thank you, and pretty). We flew back to NC on Christmas day - and this day went much smoother! Our first flight left around 11:30am and we were in NC (after the layover in Detroit) by 4:30pm. Here's some pictures from our Christmas in Indiana.

Here's all the grandkids on Christmas Eve- Parker, Tim, Drew, Lyndsey, and Will.

Drew enjoyed Grandma's piano!

Here are the boys playing with toys from when me, Sarah and Ben were kids. (Tim, Parker and Drew)

Parker and Drew played really well together. Drew would get excited whenever Parker would come over!

We about lost Drew in all the wrapping paper, but he got out of there all my himself!

Drew is watching Indianapolis get smaller from the airplane.

We got back to NC on Christmas Day, unpacked, repacked and headed to Lenoir to see Chad's family. We stayed there Christmas night and then the whole next day. Drew and Olivia almost got lost in the mountain of toys but never seemed overwhelmed! I think they both loved all the action and paper and bows. We finally got to spend a little time at home on Saturday - but it was spent doing laundry, unpacking all our gifts, and tidying up the house (since we'd packed and left in a hurry the previous weekend). On Sunday we headed back to Lenoir to see Chad's extended family and celebrate Christmas with them.

Here's a family shot - Chad, Drew and Becca.

Drew and Olivia with some of their toys

And you've all seen Drew's "cheese" smile, but this one tops them all!! He loves to cheese for the camera!

Here's nana with her 3 sons, her 4 grandchildren (and their spouses), and her 6 great-grandchildren. Back row: John, Chad, Mike, Grant, Alan, Jason (with Karlee), Tyler (with Gracie). Front row: Becca (with Drew), Sherry (with Olivia), Nana, Sasha (with Triston), and Paula (with Sawyer).

Here's Drew checking out Sawyer's stylish outfit.