The Cox's Corner: Texas

We made the trip to Texas for Christmas again this year. We have found things go so much smoother when we travel at night, so we left shortly after dark. The glow sticks from the dollar rack at Target- BEST INVESTMENT EVER!

Our drive was pretty uneventful, which is always a good thing when traveling with 3 children and a guinea pig!

We did have one hilarious event. It was early in the morning after we had traveled all night. The girls were watching movies on their little DVD players. Story had her headphones on, but they weren't plugged in, so we could hear her movie. She had no idea! I tried to tell her, but she couldn't understand what I was saying, so we just left her alone. Devon and I were dying because she really thought the sound was coming through the headphones.

We were probably all delirious by this time of the trip:-)

Since I am actually writing this post at the end of February I have one goal--to finish it. The easiest way for me to do that is to post the pictures with captions, so, enjoy!

Christmas in Austin

I got some Tennessee moonshine from the people I work for. I thought Trent and Brandon would get a kick out of it. Turns out, I like moonshine:-)

Lyric took her new Monopoly game for us to play.

She LOVED playing with all of the adults!

We met Katie for the first time--LOVE her! Uncle Brandon, she's a keeper;-)

The Oasis

Hot chocolate at the Oasis-YUM!

Licking the chocolate off- yum!

The Oasis

Uncle Trent working on his snow globe.

Story Bell patiently waiting for help with her snow globe.

Santa and a Glass Slipper for the snow globes.

Katie helped Cadence with her egg shell "snow".

Belle

The girls talked Katie into a dance party.

The stockings were hung...

Uncle Brandon's tree

The girls opening their computer from Mimi J

They weren't real sure what it was!

Uncle Brandon and Katie

Ninny

Mimi J and the girls opening gifts. LOVE those Diego socks Cadence is rockin' with her "Christmas" dress.

More presents

Uncle Trent, always plays Santa Claus

Everybody checking out their goodies

Katie showing off her ornament one of the girls made her.

Cadence showing off her glasses from Uncle Trent.

Ice Skating at the Oasis the girls first time.

Ice Skating at the Oasis the girls were so excited!

Ice Skating at the Oasis

Story had been asking to go ice skating for months! She loved it!

Ice Skating at the Oasis

My crazy husband was trying to act like he knew what he what he was doing!

He never fell, so maybe he kind of did or maybe he just got lucky:-)

Story checking out Daddy's moves.

Uncle Brandon

Whoa, Story!

I hope Katie didn't want to actually skate:-) She had a child by the hand the whole time.

My feet oh my feet, my legs oh my legs!

Daddy, "What's wrong with you?"

Katie was finally able to ditch all my girls, but she didn't show us her moves:-(

Good times!

Unfortunately, he did show us his moves;-)

Cadence loved her some Katie!

Fire!

Uncle Trent

Cadence getting some Marlie love.

Ninny listening to Dev sing.

Smores!

Some more Smores!

Yes, she is saving that chocolate for later.

Aren't we glad she swallowed first:-)

Christmas in Bryan

Grammy's tree

Bob

Grammy

All three girls posing together--that's a rare occasion!

Presents!

A camel Wenkinz- what more could a girl need?

Cadence and her new Barbie and a Fairy Secret outfit


A puppy Webkinz

Grammy opening her vase from Story. She used her birthday money to buy everyone a Christmas present.

Bob opening his coffee mug from Story.

A visit to Grammy's would not be complete without some time on the playscape!

Playing in their jammies, of course:-)

Fortunately, Story didn't have any mishaps on the playscape this time:-)

Story Bell showing off her new ballet outfit.

Faith Meadow came over for a tea party.

Faith and Lyric at the park.

Story, Faith and Lyric

She told me not to tell her mama she was in the baby swing. I wonder if posting it on my blog counts as telling?

Sweet Cadence

Story Bell giving a push

Story Bell having a swing.

More swinging.

Grammy attempted to get all five grand-kids and Faith.

Kenzie and Wesley had the most paitence for it.

They didn't mind posing.

Grammy did get all five of the grand-kids in front of the fireplace. She bribed them with candy. I heard her;-)

Not a very good picture of Cadence or Story, but I love the the way Leah is looking at Cadence-so sweet.

I was shocked Grammy had enough aprons for all of these rugrats:-)

Love this one! That is a lot of kiddos!

Grammy is so patient. She let everyone help in making the dough.

Logan working hard using his cookie cutter.

Miss Lyric was in a picture taking mood!

Story Bell reluctantly posing for me.

Roll that dough, Logan.

I think I might have scared her when I asked her to pose.

Yummy icing, Faith?

Lyric wanted to pose with every cookie she decorated!

There were lots! I'm only posting two:-)

Story decided she wanted to go bowling for her birthday gift from Grammy and Bob. Lyric is the only one of the girls who has bowled before, but she was too young to remember it. So bowling was a pretty big adventure! Grammy and Bob didn't bowl, so it wasn't as fun as it could have been.