The girls, the dogs, Mike and I drove out to Georgia right before Christmas to spend time with Mike's family. The drive went incredibly well, considering how packed our car was! The girls let us drive in 3 hour segments both ways, so we made much better time than we were expecting. The portable DVD player was a life-saver, but we had to do without it on the way home because it stopped working! That meant lots of Veggie Tales and Psalty cds!! It was great to see our family again! Alex, our nephew, is 6 now and such a fun little boy! Both of the sisters are pregnant (Laura is pregnant with a little girl and due in May; Kim is having triplets, all girls, sometime in April). They are both so cute with their little tummies, and it was fun to do all the baby talk! We did lots of fun things, as you will see from the many pictures to follow!!!!!
We got to Grammy and Pop's house on Tuesday afternoon and went that evening to Rock City. It is this huge rock formation that they decorate with lights every Christmas. We went 2 years ago when Sophie was only 6 weeks old, so this year she got to really appreciate it! She walked through the whole thing with Grammy!
We met up with Chris, Kim, Alex, Craig and Laura at Rock City. They had never met Elsie before, but all they got to see of her that night were her eyes!! She was very bundled up and warm being carried around by Daddy!
Following Auntie Laura ("Lola") through one of the crevices in the path.
Christmas Eve dinner
Opening stocking presents from Santa on Christmas morning (I don't think Sophie was quite awake yet!)
Sophie is obsessed with books! I think everyone in the family probably read her about 5 books each during the trip.
Elsie and Auntie Kim
The Sophie and Alex band. They have a very interesting sound!
Pop and Elsie reading the paper
Elsie's very first trip after she was born was to Kohls, so we had to take this picture of her in Kohls when we went to buy some clearance wrapping paper!
Sophie and Uncle Chris
The girls got all dressed up for church on Sunday (Grammy was so excited to show off her grandkids!)
We had late birthday celebrations for Mike and Sophie
Cookie Monster must have been very naughty because Sophie had to put him into time-out.
Sophie playing with her new teaset from Alex! Don't worry, she has since figured out the correct way to pour tea!
Sophie sharing some tea with her sister
Lunch with our Sunday School group...one of our members is deployed overseas and this was his farewell!
Uncle Craig and Sophie at Rock City
Making potato sausage
Admiring some of Pop's Christmas decorations...their house was one of the winners in the neighborhood decorating contest!
We met up with Chris, Kim, Alex, Craig and Laura at Rock City. They had never met Elsie before, but all they got to see of her that night were her eyes!! She was very bundled up and warm being carried around by Daddy! 
Following Auntie Laura ("Lola") through one of the crevices in the path.
Christmas Eve dinner
Opening stocking presents from Santa on Christmas morning (I don't think Sophie was quite awake yet!)
Sophie is obsessed with books! I think everyone in the family probably read her about 5 books each during the trip.
Elsie and Auntie Kim
The Sophie and Alex band. They have a very interesting sound!
Pop and Elsie reading the paper
Elsie's very first trip after she was born was to Kohls, so we had to take this picture of her in Kohls when we went to buy some clearance wrapping paper!
Sophie and Uncle Chris
This is what Sophie's hair looks like after taking out her pigtails!
"Where's our food?"
We got Kim a wheelchair because she obviously gets pretty tired carrying those triplets around!
This cute little old lady was volunteering in the butterfly garden and practically ordered me to take this picture of the butterfly! She was so cute (the old lady, not the butterfly!)
Grammy, Pop and the grandkids
One of Sophie's new birthday presents! Thanks, Aunt Laura and Uncle Craig!