Cousins Christmas

 It's fun to see family over the break, and for Jake, it's especially fun to see his cousins.  Our time with them is limited, so it's all the more precious.  For one of our advent activities earlier in December, our family of 4 made party hats to celebrate Jesus birthday.  Jake was sure to make one for each of his cousins, so we brought them along for a fun birthday celebration...

We all sang "Happy Birthday" to Jesus, then the kids blew out candles.  What we didn't realize was we had mistakenly bought trick candles, so the kids kept blowing and blowing, but the candles just didn't go out.  It was pretty funny because no one expected it, not even the adults!

 Cutie Campbell...

 Cutie Luke...

 Jake has one living great-grandparent, Mom Barr, and it's always special to get to see her.  It is the tradition on Mom Barr's side of the family for her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to get together Christmas night for the "Barr party."  Of course, as the family has grown, not everyone can always make it.  We haven't been in 2 years, ourselves, but we were able to be in town for this Barr party.  It was quite a special event because ALL of Mom Barr's 12 great-grandchildren were there.  We were sad to miss one daughter's family who lives out of state, but all the Texas families made it with the great-grandkids.  That definitely deserved a picture!  Unfortunately, only 10 are pictured b/c Luke and Zaya were not in the mood for a pic.  Oh well, hopefully this will not be the only chance we get...

 Mom Barr and Jake...

 Channing and I discovered we had matching boots, so here we are showing them off...