Capturing Christmas Part 4: Routh Family

Every year we head up to NC to celebrate Christmas with Mikey's mom's family. We typically get together the Saturday before Christmas, which is perfect for us. We don't get to see them too often, so it is always a nice time catching up and watching the kids play together. Mikey's grandfather turned NINETY in May and has SIX great-grand kids with one more on the way. Mikey's sister and her whole family can't always make it since they live in Florida, but this year she and the kids were able to come (we missed Uncle Vic!) and it added to the FUN and CHAOS of the season...lots of little kiddos to love on:-)

Our little reindeer...loves her sweet taters'

cousin love.

Glenn fam

weeee!

Love this picture of my angel.

All the great grand kids...except Shane. He's the oldest and just turned 21!!! WOW! We missed him this year.

Loves presents.

pretty baby. (yeah...I'm allowed to be biased on my own blog, right!?!)

This year, we also had a little mini Christmas celebration with just Mimi (Mikey's mom) and her kids and grand kids at our house on the Sunday night before Christmas. It was super low key, we had after all just been in NC the day before and Mikey and I celebrated with my dad's family on Sunday (day)! Whew. Makes me tired just thinking about it. Mimi picked up lasagna for everyone from Olive Garden and we enjoyed each others company and enjoyed watching the little ones open gifts.

C was fascinated with her stride-to-ride puppy Mimi got her.

Babies.

Hey, Hay!!

So much Christmas goodness. It was such a fabulous holiday season.

xoxo.

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