Saturday, December 31, 2016

Tennessee Christmas 2016/Louisiana New Year 2017

Enjoying a lovely TN evening!
 Chris and I had a wonderful date night in Pigeon Forge. Dinner at the Old Mill Restaurant, wax museum, coffee and a little Christmas shopping




 Best. Abuelita. Ever. 
Mi Abuela es mi BFF



 Both kids love Mawmaw and Pawpaw's chickens

 
 Mawmaw and Pawpaw built the kids a zipline


 Mawmaw teaching Zeb how to cut up limbs to build up the bonfire pile
 Dollywood with the family!






 I love this man more than words!
 He's my favorite!


























 Christmas Eve we drove through Cades Cove and stopped at Sarah's work for souvenirs and the kids put on a "play". Lenox was baby Jesus, being poked by the "shepard" (Judah)


 The boys pretending to be decorated Christmas trees

 Christmas morning after the Lord's supper and opening stockings, we went on a hike up to an old school house.










 2 Lenoxs

 Nannah and I cooking Christmas dinner (Mexican stack up, YUM!)
 The boys "sledding" with a little help from Nannah



Best. Kids. Ever.













 Bonfire the night before we left to head to BR
 Playing with our new toys on the road!
 What chocolate chip cookie?!
 Dinner at Aunt Diane and Uncle David's with Granny Lenox
Uno!


World's greatest babysitter, cousin Margaret
 Just helping Meredith brush her teeth
 Sweet cousins

 Christmas with the Gaines'



 I love it when all the nieces and nephews get together!







 

Family pictures
Right before leaving to take family picutres, Zeb started running fever and was so tired, we had to wake him up to leave and he yawned the whole time and tried so hard to put on a smile and all Lenox wanted was to pet the dog, so much for good pictures! We tried!


Zebulun ran high fever through the night so we ended up taking him to an urgent care in Zachary the next morning (and missed out on a family trip to New Orleans). He was diagnosed with a URI, which ended up being totally wrong, turns out he had hand, foot, mouth disease. Yay! NOT! which he so graciously gave to his sister as well. Even though he felt like a little fireball he still managed a smile!
 
We spent the next 2 days resting at MawMaw's. Zebulun thoroughly enjoyed learning the art of quilting from MawMaw Auer


 and legos with Harley
 Even though these two shared paci's, toys and socks, Sweet Lil Hack managed not to get sick!! Praise!


 Night times were the worst....fevers, sleepless nights, rashes all over their bodies and hurting for my babies


We left early Sunday morning (New Year's Day) to head back to San Antonio. After the initial 3 days, the worst part, the kids started getting better once we got home. The rash lasted about a week.