Right after all the Christmas Festivities, my family all came into town to spend New Years with us here in Dallas. It was so awesome to have all the sisters, husbands, nieces, nephews and my mom together. It has been so long since we have all been in one place. My mom rented out a house nearby for everyone to use as a gathering place. It was a blast spending all day together, hanging out, relaxing and playing with the babies. It was the first time for everyone (besides Grandma) to meet Calvin so that made it super special.
Emmy took a while to warm up to her Uncle Darron. It was her first time meeting him and she tends to be a little shy around strange men she doesn't know. By the end of the week she was very much a fan of him. She still likes to make jokes though about how she is, "scared of Darron."
Emmy and her Uncle Jake hanging out playing play doh at the house we rented.
We took everyone on a trip to the zoo during the visit and we all had a great time. Cohen had the best view in the house during the Lion show.
Emmy spent a lot of the day on Grandma's hip. She loved learning about the elephants from Grandma.
This Giraffe was trying to sneak a little lick of Emmy, but couldn't quite reach.
Sean hoisted Emmy up on his shoulders, just like Cohen, at Emmy's request.
No zoo day would be complete without a Gorilla sighting.
Calvin was a trooper the whole day, as he usually is. Many people kept peeking into the carseat to see what little baby was inside.
We had a great time at the zoo. It was definitely a good bonding time for Emmy and Darron. During the reptile house Uncle Darron carried Emmy and showed her all the snakes. She still asks about Darron and Sarah every time we got to the zoo.
While in the reptile house there was a huge albino python. It was all curled up where you could just see a little bit of it, but you could tell the thing was huge. While we were all standing there feeling a little creeped out at the huge guy, a door opened up and a man crawled into the exhibit to clean out some debris. I was freaking out and couldn't believe he would go in there. It was so insane to me. Also strange to see a human walking around in an exhibit.
On New Years Eve night we took everyone over to Vitruvian Park to see the lights and get out of the house before we hunkered down for the New Years festivities at home. It was a beautiful night, and surprisingly cold. So glad we could get a picture of all of us together.
This trip was also when we all got to meet Dave in person. It was great that we could all be together for that and it was great of him to come down and spend time with us. He will very soon be a permanent part of the family so we hope he doesn't mind all of our craziness!
Because we were all together for the first time...ever! We organized some simple family photos. I thought they turned out great, especially with three slightly uncooperative babies!
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