Christmas in Austin

The beautiful Grandma Grape.

Isa and Bryn hosting their cousins and doing a great job. (the statue could represent Rach, Tommy and Kate!)

Kate. She is nearly 4 months old and it is our first time to meet her. I LOVE to snuggle her. Very cuddly and happy baby.

Rach takes pictures of herself in the car....I gave her my camera to distract her thoughts from throwing up in my car!

Tommy...wondering how much more fun can he take. He and Rach and Katie are fighting fevers and coughs.

The Oasis Restaurant: superb view over the Travis Lake

Dallin arrives after a 7 hour delay at the airport. Instead of a mid-afternoon arrival, he came in at midnight. But he only jumped from the frying pan into the fire when he came to our house with 'up at 5:45am kids'....forget catching up on any sleep!

Shopping the After Christmas sales!

Noel in the lead with Rach on a tag-a-long. Tom on his own bike. Jake pulling the kid wagon with Isa and Tommy.

It was a perfectly warm, beautiful day. We rode the Lance Armstrong Trail. Very fitting while in Austin!

Everyone got to bike...we took turns between watching kids and biking

Colie's Birthday dinner at Kirby Lane just before picking up Jake's family at the airport.

Colie's birthday party....pedicure's for the girls. It was the FIRST time for both Nicole and I. Sad statement, huh?

Natalie and Noel get the 'Host of The Year' award for hosting all of us. Really. Think of all the elements of this large gathering. They seem to be handling it all ok....I guess they are holding off their meltdown until after we leave.

And not to forget Christmas morning. There were tons of presents even though we tried really, really hard to keep it simple. I loved talking with Elder Herway. A bit hard to hang up. Fun to be all together 'virtually' on the conference call.

Thanks to all the kids for the GPS! I'm trying it out in Austin and I am still on a high learning curve. Thanks so much everyone!!!