Thursday, December 27, 2007

Christmas with the Harrison Side

We left Asheville at 4:00 pm on Friday for one of our worst road trips ever. The 3 1/2 hour trip took over 5 hours due to traffic, frequent stops, Adam throwing up twice, and Annabelle fussing the majority of the time. Things turned around as soon as we arrived though, and we enjoyed lots of sweet family time.

I got to go with Mandy (Seth's cousin) and Angie to Target on Saturday morning to get a few last minute gifts. It was so nice to shop without Annabelle in the backpack! Then that night we ate a delicious meal of smoked turkey and ham at Nana and Papa's with everyone.



We let the grandkids open their presents from one another.

Adam was pretty sick the entire weekend. He was SO sweet and felt better when his Motrin kicked in. Annabelle, Amy, Caleb and Aaron all had colds but faired well anyways. lots of snot. lots of snot. We didn't have to worry about germs since they were all infected though. Annabelle and Aaron were so cute together! Aaron is a really good baby.



On Sunday we went to church and then the annual Harrison Family Gathering afterward. Here are all of the kids:

Amy just wanted to take care of Annabelle the whole time but she was not very cooperative. Annabelle did not want to be carried! Just wait a few more months. We finally got this picture of Katie, Amy and Annabelle. They were very patient in our attempts!




I thought I did pretty well in the White elephant gift swap because I ended up with the 80's version of 'Name that Tune' game.
We played later that night against Angie and Johnny, and Reba and Jimmy. Seth and I came in last place. We were awful. I decided that I had a huge disadvantage because we never had cable growing up. It was pretty funny though.


Later that evening, Uncle Heath brought his four wheeler over to ride with the boys. Aaron is in the front carrier! It made me less nervous to know that Heath had Adam and Aaron on there with him.


Annabelle had to see some of the action.




Christmas Eve morning we all exchanged gifts and had breakfast. Here are a few pictures:






Then we drove home in virtually no traffic with all of the kids napping at some point. It was a great trip!

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