Christmas in New Orleans!

We started our trip by having our annual Christmas dinner at Aunt Ne' and Uncle Dan's house. Nola was quick to try out Dan Michael's new toys.

My sweet God son!

Taking down the saints!

Connor, Ne & Nola

Sweet Connor!

Look at me!

Jay after a little too much Christmas spirit!

Monday we headed to the new Mellow Mushroom in Covington. The staff was great with the kids and gave them their own dough to play with.

Making a Pizza Pie!

Roll it out!

I really am Italian!

My aunt threw a party for my cousin Elyse who was in from Canada. It was really nice to see a lot of my cousins.

Cute Mackenzie!

Nola & Riley

Good Morning Sleeping Beauty!

SMILE!

Uncle Dave taking Tripp & Nola to cut oranges from Nana & Grumps' tree.

" I think I may have found a new hobby!"

"I Love My Cousin!"

"Me too!"

"Thanks Mason & Jackson for letting me play with your toys!"

Getting ready to watch the Tigers play in the Capital One Bowl!

"Here we go, let's go TIGERS!"

"Oh man the Tigers are losing?"

"WE LOST! :( "

STRIKE A POSE!

We had to wait until New Years day for Aunt Christy to get in town so we could open presents. You might think the kids would be tired of opening presents after going from house to house, but not our kids. It was like an addiction. When they saw a present....game on! It was so hard to keep them back and Nana even let them open one a day. It was all worth the wait though!

First Luggage

Tripp enjoying his presents.

Cool...a train ornament!

Helmet for my new skates!

Thanks Papa Noel for all our goodies.
We enjoyed everything!

While preparing for Uncle Mike & Aunt Brandi's engagement party on Saturday, we made a quick pit stop for the kids to burn some energy. What better place than a toy store. I promise we didn't buy anything...we just let them push the baskets around. It was so funny because I must have heard 10 moms say, "there is no way you need another toy!"

"Just perusing!"

"I'm ready for Supermarket Sweep!"


Family Shot at Mike & Brandi's engagement party.
Look at how we've grown!


The Happy Couple!

Here's Nola after partying too much all night. We all woke up early and headed to our flight back to New Jersey. Nola was very eager to try out her new luggage. She is really slow right now so we'll have to show her the ropes. She'll get it!

"Wait for me daddy! I'm coming too!"