Christmas in a cabin

The weekend right after Christmas we headed to Gatlinburg for Christmas with my Dad and Brenda and all my sisters, nieces, nephew, and brothers in law.  It was super fun.  Again, not much picture taking went on this weekend.  Not sure why I am so out of that habit.  We went on a hike on Saturday so I did snap few pics from my phone of that excursion.

Elaina with her two favorite people on the planet - Celia and Sadie.  

Family pose - let me just add that Elaina is all smiles here but about 15 seconds into this walk she was not a happy camper.  Complaining, crying, flailing about....but she (we) persevered through and she made it the whole time.  

Everyone (some stayed back to go shopping and/or relax)...Dave, Nell, Alexandra, Celia, Elaina, Sean, Abby, Sadie, Doug, me, and Erik.  Sloane was there too, but she was asleep in the stroller that the camera was propped up on to take this very picture - so she is not pictured here

My dad made peanut butter fudge with the little girls.  Elaina talked about this for days.  We now have the recipe and she is a happy girl about that.

A cabin selfie...always fun!

We played games, watched TV (mostly football) and had a great time.  Oh, and we opened presents too!

One thing I wish I had pictures of were the games we played.  We always play games and they always end in roaring laughter over some crazy stunt someone pulls.  And by someone, I mean my dad.  He will literally do anything to win.  You don't out grow that, apparently.  Let's just say that the game became a physical game of musical chairs ending with my very own dad pulling the game winning chair out from underneath my very own sweet husband as he went to sit down causing him to land on his butt....just for the win.  We all laughed...Erik didn't know what happened....Elaina cried when she saw her dad go down.  In the end, it was hilarious.  Erik is a good sport.  During the prize ceremony, Elaina screamed - "YOU CHEATED!" to my dad which cracked us all up.  I love it!  Sticking up for her dad.  And, I think my dad felt bad...but not for long.  It was classic and a good memory.  We are already planning our games for next year.

Okay, that wraps up Christmas. Until next time....