Visit with Uncle Tony

My brother came home for Christmas this year and it was nice to see him. The kids absolutely love him and call him Uncle Hair. Brynn gave him that name. 

Christmas 2014

Such a wonderful holiday this year!  We started out with brunch at our good friends' on Christmas Eve, hopefully a new tradition. We came home, napped & got ready for church. We met my parents at mass & came home & had our traditional hoagies and opened presents with my parents. It was a lot of fun watching Kate, Brynn and chase this year! 

After presents, we put carrots out for the reindeer and cookies for Santa and everyone went to sleep!

The elves were waiting for Santa too so they could go back to the North Pole

Christmas morning!  Kate was the first child up at 6:15. She was so excited when she looked over the hallway and saw the tree. 

Grammie came over and namma and pop pop and tony came for dinner. 

Then, on Sunday after Christmas, we do 2nd Christmas at Rich's mom's house. The kids love it because they get to hang with their cousins and it's like Christmas all over again!

All the McKinnon kids & PapPap

Selfies

Best buds 

Nutcracker Tradition

For the past few Christmases my mom has taken the girls and me to the Nutcracker. We went again this year and had a great time!

Brynn's debut

Brynn's school does an amazing little Christmas show every year. Each class sings songs and Brynn's class sang 3. One was "I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus" & guess who was the mommy?!?  That's right!!  Our girl. She did awesome and even blew a kiss to the audience after her bow at the end. Our budding star. 

New York City!

We surprised the girls and Chase with a trip to NYC December 7. We drove into the city and went right to Central Park. We were waiting for a carriage and ran into our good friends!  How crazy is that?!?

Here are some pics of our carriage ride around the city. 

After that, we went to FAO Schwartz. It was crowded but we saw a lot!

After that, we had dinner at Dylan's candy bar and it was really fun!

We finally made our way to Rockefeller Center to see the famous tree. It was beautiful!  We even saw the skaters!

We went back to our hotel and they loved it. They had fun being outside of the house. 

The next morning, we got up and went to toys r us. We wanted to ride the Ferris wheel, but it wasn't open yet. So we walked around the store. 

And then we went to the girls' motherland. The American girl Doll store. We had brunch reservations and the girls got their dolls' ears pierced and hair done. It was adorable!!

We had such a great trip. Hopefully we can make this an annual adventure.