Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Christmas started off on 12/17 with the arrival of our nephew and cousin, Jude. We spent 5 days in Huntsville and celebrated Christmas with the Bordens there.
Bryce and Papaw Ruff at Blakeley and Hunter's house.
Bryce playing with one of 2 new stomp/jump rockets. He loves these things!!

We came home from Huntsville on the 21st and were here for 2 days before heading to West Point to spend Christmas with the Dukes. We had a great time with everyone. Bryce especially enjoyed playing and running around with his cousin Daniel. This is the first visit where Bryce has been old enough to really play with him and they had a blast together!

Papaw Duke has 2 mini school buses on his land (don't ask--he used to have 6 or 7 full size buses out there too!). Bryce LOVES these. He can 'drive' them and open the doors and talk on the CB radios. They spend hours out there each visit to West Point.

Bryce and Daddy in a marching band parade. Bryce got cymbals, a saxaphone and a trumpet for Christmas this year.

After West Point we went on to Olive Branch and stayed with my parents for a couple of days. We got to see some of our old friends from college and Bryce enjoyed playing with their daughter Harper.

From Olive Branch we drove to Birmingham early on Tuesday to have brunch with my dad's family. The gathering was pretty small this year, but we still had a great time. Tuesday night Bryce and I stayed with my parents, aunt, uncle and cousin Jack at a very nice hotel in Birmingham. It was a lot of fun. We drove through Montgomery and stopped by to see my Grandpa yesterday. He was doing great and really enjoyed seeing Bryce. My grandmother is having some trouble right now so please keep her in your prayers.

We got back to Pensacola around 6:00 yesterday. Phew! It is nice to be back, but unpacking from this trip is going to take a while! As I was unloading my mom's car I closed the door on my sweet boy's hand. It hurt him very bad, but after about an hour he was back to playing and using that hand again. I felt TERRIBLE! Bryce slept in his big boy bed last night!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll post pictures of his updated big boy room later today. We still have to hang some pictures.

Happy New Year!!!