Christmas 2011 Part 2

For our second Christmas celebration, we travelled to Knoxville to spend time with Grandmama, Grandpa, Aunt Elizabeth, Uncle Jeremy and cousins Zachary, Matthew and Colin.   On Christmas Eve, Christy dropped by and I got a good picture of her and Andrew (her Godson).  That night, we headed over to Aunt Laura's house for the Townsend celebration.   All of my first cousins were there so it was very special.  We had a great dinner and a Christmas pageant. Andrew played a lamb and Carrie played a shephard. 

On Christmas day, Santa came and brought all kinds of goodies for the kids.  Carrie was beside herself with excitement with all the toy options and her 2 older cousins to play with.  Andrew just ran around causing trouble - going after electrical outlets, the telephone, cousin Colin's toys, all the cabinets in the kitchen, etc.  Colin was just cute as always and generally put up with Andrew's craziness.

That evening, we got to see our Dominick cousins.  They dropped by for some appetizers and a glass of wine. It was great catching up with them as well.  What a treat to be able to see ALL my cousins on both sides of the family!

Here are some pictures from Christmas Part 2!

Christy and Andrew

The sheep in the Christmas pageant

A not so good picture of the Christmas pageant...note the cow and sheep.  Ignore my thumb!

Colin the cow

Sleepy but happy on Christmas morning

Cousin Zachary

Cousins Matthew and Colin (in background)

Andrew taking over Colin's toy

Carrie the future movie star in her princess dress

Dad opening his new metal detector

Liz with the boys - she will probably be mad at me for posting this picture!