Christmas in Mobile

We started our Christmas celebration with a trip to Mobile, Alabama, to visit Ryan's side of the family. His aunt, uncle and Grammy all live there and his mom, sister, brother, aunt, cousins and their kids all made the trip, too. It was a crowded house!

The trip there took about 8 hours, with a time change, and aside from some fussing toward the very end, Nathan and Jax (yes, we even brought the dog!) were both really great in the car. We stopped twice and finally arrived around 5 in the afternoon.

Since we weren't going to be home for Christmas, we brought it with us and exchanged gifts with the Morgans while we were there. Nathan got some fun toys and lots of cute clothes from his aunt, uncle and Lolly. He was slightly overwhelmed and took incredible naps to make up for it!

It was fun to watch how he reacted to the wrapping paper and definitely seemed more fixated in the bows and paper over the actual gifts! 

Everyone loved on the monkey and he was never short of attention or playmates. It was nice to have the extra sets of hands to help! He seemed to have lots of fun watching the cousins run around and playing in the center of the room with all eyes on him.

Our four days in Mobile went by fast and we had lots of fun visiting with so many family members. After countless rounds of Mexican Train and too many yummy meals to count, we were ready to hit the road again and head to Atlanta for part two of our Christmas vacation.