Christmas

We kicked off our Christmas holiday by heading to the beautiful, classy, wonderful Virginia. I just love this place, people. Can't get enough of that east coast class. Our Virginia trip included 2 feet of snow, snowball fights, tons of playing the Wii and Xbox, playing computer games with my little brother Dan until the wee hours of the morning, playing lazer tag, caroling at the homeless shelter, and trips to the movie theater. Jen, AJ, and Lizzy came up and stayed in Ashburn for almost the whole week so the whole family was together for potentially the last time in several years. Aw, SO FUN. It was exactly everything a Christmas break should be.

We must have opened presents for HOURS. After expanding the family to now NINE kids, my parents still managed to spoil us. Cute little Nate (my 10 year old brother) spent all the monies in his piggy bank to get Hunter and I this sweeeeet Wii racing game. The best part was my adorable litle niece Lizzy loving her new dollhouse.

The light of my life!

Intense snowball fight between the brothers and my dad, AJ and Hunter vs. Tanner and my Dad. At this point my Dad is yelling "man down!" because Hunter just pegged him in the chest.

At my cousins wedding just a few days before Christmas. My poor sister Kate and her husband Tanner missed it because they missed their flight due to crowded airport madness.

On December 28, after enjoying our time in the snowy east coast, we headed across the country to find the sun. San Diego didn't disappoint. Beach wiffle ball, getting spoiled by Hunter's parents for Christmas, picking terrible movies from the redbox and listening to Paul snore about half way through, pedicures, watching the sun go down at the beach we got engaged at, and running 6 miles down the pier in the rain to get to a restaurant. Overall, a great success.

This not-so-little guy was just chillen here in the rain. He was so cute I wanted to hug him, but its a good thing I didn't because we later came to find out he likes to bite people.