Christmas with the Jacksons

We spent Christmas this year with all of my family and it was a blast! It was a full house with everyone there, 19 of us! We spent two weeks there and we were sad to leave them and come home. It is still nice to come home and we love spending time as our little family. Now it is time to get back to real life and Jeff back in the groove of school and studying. It was so great to be able to see all of my family and they are all so wonderful! We look forward to the next time we can all be together again! Annabelle was a bit clingy to us at first since she was sick, but then warmed up and had a great time playing with everyone! We took a lot of pictures so here are some of them that are mostly centered around Annabelle because let's face it, this is basically her blog.

She got this stroller and baby doll from Grandma and Grandpa for Christmas and she has been cruising around the house with it.


Annabelle got her ears pierced! Not really... these are her cousin's clip on earrings.

She had a great time with all of her cousins and they were so great with her.


She was tired from too much play and cuddled with Grandpa. I love watching her sleep. Sometimes Jeff and I sneak in her room at night just to watch her sleep. What an angel!


Lounging and cuddling with Grandma.

Sharing a snack with her cousin.

For some reason Annabelle is afraid of other people's bathtubs. She loves the bathtub at home but whenever we try to give her a bath somewhere else she hates it.

She found a little car to play with and spent quite a bit of time in it. She thought she was pretty cool in it and had a lot of fun.


We went to this place called the Bounce House. They had a bunch of inflatable activity centers and Jeff went flying on this one. Annabelle also went down her first slide.

Hanging with the boys. She loves her Uncle Keith!

Annabelle cuddling some more with Grandpa.

My Mom, sisters and I went to lunch at this little tea time restaurant. We made some fun hats and dressed up in feather boas for our tea party. We had some delicious hot chocolate in our teapot. It was really fun.

Here I am in my teatime hat.

The girls at the tea room.

My Dad threw together a family game of Minute to Win It. Here I am participating in one of the events. It was a lot of fun!

Annabelle and her cousin have matching skirts so of course they had to wear them on the same day. Aren't they adorable!

Annabelle woke up too early but Jeff was so great to let me sleep in and took her downstairs.

Mommy and Annabelle cuddling on Christmas morning while opening presents

The sweet girl giving Daddy smiles for her stocking stuffer. It was yogurt melts, she loves them.

Annabelle opening her baby stroller, she was excited!

The poor girl was sick and wanted a lot of cuddling

Making Christmas cookies

Happily waiting in the airport