christmas: part 4 of ?

and off to kernersville we go!

well...after a trip to hickory, of course, to see jason's childhood bff, kristen.  no pictures of that though - next time, i promise!

so by december 23rd we had finally made it to kernersville, k-vegas, the big k.  the place i thought encompassed the entire world as a little girl.  we made it there around 10pm, cashel still wide awake.  california time, remember?

granddad made it there the next day so we spent christmas eve hanging around the house, going to the fourth of july park and eating tons of food.

christmas day it snowed!  it was beautiful but jason and i hated it but we were shamed by mimi to take cashel out into the snow.  we are spoiled californian's now (just kidding mom, i'm a kernersvillian and jason's a hickoryian - i just made those up....could ya tell?)....anyhoo...we have no cold weather gear anymore!  i mean, i did make jason search through about 50 bins under our house for my old nj coat to bring with me, but we had no gloves, etc.

regardless - we took cashel out into the snow.  he loved it as all little boys do, but, he was very confused as i was making my snow angel.

here are some other pictures from christmas day!

a few days later the rest of the family (except for randall) got here and we had our traditional family christmas. we read the christmas story and opened presents and ate more food.

 and...while we were together we celebrated both grandmother's and jonathan's upcoming janurary 6th birthdays.  grandmother was getting ready to turn 99! and jonathan 45!  (just kidding jonathan)

i was able to see my bffffffff

and we had a cookie making contest with more than willing judges.  team robin/emma, aka, "remma" and team jason/molly, aka "jolly".  both teams had lots of help by cashel and remma won by a landslide:

when jason wasn't making cookies or playing wii he truly relaxed:

we left the night before new years eve to drive back to mary and kelly's house and spend new years eve with emily's family (post to come soon!)

we all agree that this was one of the best christmas' in a l o n g time!