The Lovelands: Christmas 2011

This year for Christmas we got to go out to Idaho to visit Ryan's family. It was such a blast. Claire LOVED her cousins (there were 5 of the 6 girl cousins there and only 1 of the 4 boy cousins). It was a girl party everyday. Ryan and I had a great time too. It was a perfect break from school and life for Ryan and I. We just wished we could have stayed longer.

This is Claire and her sweet cousins Aaliyah. She is 7 years old and was AMAZING with all the little cousins running around. Claire loved Aaliyah! She was one of the only people who Claire let hold her all the time.

Aaliyah is an incredible dancer and she entertained the younger cousins by teaching them how to dance and do the splits. So cute!

We HAD to get a bath time picture. Claire was not thrilled. This was all the cousins there. Going from left to right we have Akyra, Lizzy, Aaliyah then down to the next row Amyah, Landon and Claire.

Claire loved to ham it up. She is such a tease. She would act so cute people would want to hold her then she would get quite upset when they tried. Oh Claire Bear!

Claire loved her cousins. This is Amyah. She is 13 months old. It was so fun to see them interact.

Just getting the pecking order down...hehe

Aaliyah did an incredible dance routine for us. She also was so sweet and taught Akyra and Lizzy a routine and had them perform for us too. I just couldn't help it. With all this girliness I had to make TUTUS!!!

Here is Lizzy posing in her Tutu. Amy got all the girls these awesome shirts.

Look at that amazing pose by Akyra!

Oh Amyah your cuteness melts my heart!

And Claire Bear you just look so edible!

Quick note: Claire danced for the first time! She saw all her cousins dancing so she started dancing too! It was sooo cute!

Here they all are! Look at those cuties!

This is Landon. He is ALL boy and loved being lifted on your shoulders to shoot the basketball. He is so fun!

Lizzy was so sweet with Claire too! She loved to comfort her and hug her. What sweet cousins!

It was a pj party! Love it!

The girls found out that it was fun to tackle aunt Jeni....

Yup, so they did that for a long time...hehe it was way too fun!

Then we got some cute pictures of all the girls!

I just had to throw this picture in. Look at how precious Amyah is!

Here are the three sisters. Akyra, Amyah and Aaliyah! Love them to peices!

This was us on Christmas day getting ready for church. I love my little family!

And Claire just hamming it up again.

and again...

Uncle Ryan on Christmas morning playing with Lizzy. The kids loved playing with him. He is so amazing with kiddos.

This was us on Christmas morning. Claire was so aware that she was getting presents. It's crazy. I thought she would have no clue. She totally knew she was getting presents.