from Atlanta to Athens (Christmas Eve & Christmas morning)

After spending a couple of days in Atlanta, we met Rob in Athens. This year, we were spending Christmas Eve & Christmas morning at Mimi & Pop's house. We had a great time in Athens. Ansley loves to see Uncle Boo & Aunt CC too! This was Chelsea's first Christmas with the Mautz family so we had to show her the craziness, the good eats, and of course lots of fun times together. The older kids, and Mimi played "catch phrase" at night, which was a blast! This needs to be a new christmas tradition :) It was the girls against the guys (well Rob & Matt, since Pops was already in bed).

We had Christmas Eve lunch at the country club, and then headed back to the house to relax some before Gammie arrived for a delicious meal made by Mimi. Even though the dinner didn't come out exactly how Mimi had planned, we still had a wonderful time and enjoyed all the company! After dinner, Ansley & Uncle Boo had a dance party (I got some great pics). And then Ansley decorated some cookies for Santa. Daddy read "Twas the night before Christmas", Ansley sprinkled her reindeer food and then it was time for Ansley to go to bed. Poor Aly, she can't make it much later then 6:30pm before having an absolute meltdown so she missed out on a lot of the christmas traditions this year.

Christmas morning came really early since we needed to get on the road by noon to celebrate my family.  I hated waking the girls up. Ansley was so excited she didn't care, but poor Aly, she came down with a cold and was ABSOLUTELY miserable! She literally was only a wake for about 30 minutes and then went back to bed and missed out on all the gifts. But she NEEDED to sleep since we knew it was going to be a very long day (We didn't open Aly's gifts until right before we left to go back to Atlanta).

Santa found his way to Mimi & Pop's house and left Ansley a bike along with some other goodies. Ansley was so excited about her new bike! She had mentioned to Rob a couple of days before Christmas how she would like a bike but never told Santa. Rob said that Santa was listening and maybe it wasn't too late for him to get it ready for Christmas. It was perfect, a Princess bike! This girl loves anything, and everything Princess (mommy & daddy are a little sick of it but whatever makes her happy)...

Santa didn't forget about Aly, she got her very own suitcase (ok, so this was more for mommy but for Aly too) as well as some new toys :)

Not only was Santa very generous to our girls, but every one else was as well. We got great gifts, and really enjoyed spending the Christmas morning with family :)

Thank you Mimi, Pops, Aunt CC & Uncle Boo for making Christmas so special for our girls. They love you so much!

Uncle Boo, Ans & Aly

Mimi, opening our gift to her a little early... we got her DVR and they were coming to set it up on Christmas Eve so we had to give it to her early...I don't think she minded at all :)

Mimi & Ansley

Boo & CC look like they could be Ansley & Aly's parents :)

the family at the country club on Christmas Eve

Aunt CC & Aly

we literally dressed the girls for this picture and then put them in comfortable clothes, they were over it! But at least I got a decent family picture

Uncle Boo & Ansley having their dance party

ta da!

and twirl...

adding lots of sprinkles on Santa's cookies :)

Santa's cookies

can I dump out all the reindeer food?

(and she dumped the whole jar...she wanted to make sure the reindeer knew were to stop)

Santa definitely came and was very generous

Aly's goodies

Ansley's goodies

looks like Santa wanted to try a bite of each cookie :)

so excited she got her big girl bike!

Mimi & Aly

this is how miserable Aly was...

I can see you Mimi....

Really?!? This is for me?