Leslie and I had quite the eventful Christmas break this year. We did a ton of traveling and lots of visiting with friends and family. Somehow, even with all of the busyness, we got completely off of our normal sleep schedule and enjoyed sleeping in way too late!
After we were both finished with finals, we drove to Texas to spend the night with my parents before we all headed out for part 1 of our adventure. The next morning, we flew to Birmingham and visited with my grandmother.
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| My dad and my grandmother at dad's favorite place... Golden Rule BBQ |
We spent the night in Birmingham and woke up early to drive to Chattanooga where my aunt, uncle, and other grandmother live. My grandmother was recently moved to a nursing home, so we went to celebrate an early Christmas with her. It was so much fun having nearly the whole family together!
The next day we woke up early again and drove to Murfreesboro, TN to visit my birth mom, Marsha, and her family! We got a tour of Murfreesboro, went to their yummy frozen yogurt place, and went back to Marsha and Kevin's for a yummy dinner with a bunch of their friends and family.
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With Mark- On our tour!  |
It was so great getting to spend time with them and getting to meet lots of people that were there to meet me when I was born!
The next day we were super lazy and hung out at Marsha's house most of the morning. Then my parents, Marsha and Mark, & Leslie and I drove to Franklin, TN where I lived for 12 years! It was so fun going back to see what had changed and what was still there.
We all went to our FAVORITE Mexican restaurant, Pancho's, and the guy working there actually remembered us after 10 years!
We also got to drive by our old house and saw my brick in the park I used to play in and our bricks in downtown Franklin.
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| Our old house! |
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| My brick at the park |
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| Mom & Dad's brick downtown |
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| My brick downtown! |
Then we went and checked in to the Opryland Hotel where we spent the night! They had to redo a good portion of it after the flood in Nashville, but it was just as beautiful as I remembered it!
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| View from our room :) Thanks mom and dad! Haha |
We had some time to explore and had plenty of picture taking opportunities!
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| With Pop Pop! |
Not sure who ended up with the family pictures-- obviously not me!
After exploring, we met up with Marsha, Mark, Kevin, and Nanny J and went to see the Rockettes perform! It was really great!
The next morning we ate brunch at the hotel and then headed to Birmingham to fly back to Dallas!
We stayed in Texas for Christmas and got to spend time with some of my favorite girls (minus Kati :( )!
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| With my BFF Katie before the Candlelight service! |
We went to church at 11pm on Christmas Eve, opened presents with my parents on Christmas morning, and went with my family and Katie to see We Bought a Zoo before going to dinner at Katie's family's house!
A few days after Christmas we made the trek to Tuscaloosa to visit Leslie's family! We spent time with lots of Leslie's family and enjoyed some down time. On New Year's Eve we got to see our beautiful friend Fernanda get married at Calvary. It was great seeing old friends and celebrating with them. (Unfortunately during this part of the break my picture taking motivation left me)
Whew. Just typing all this makes me tired all over again. We were so thankful to be able to spend Christmas break with so many friends and with family, but it is nice to finally be home!
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