Mississippi Christmas

So per tradition we headed up to Hattiesburg the day after Christmas on the 26th. This is usually when we do Christmas with Austin's family. Sometimes it falls on the Saturday before/after but with Christmas this year on a Sunday the 26th worked out perfectly. 
We were aiming to leave our house by about 9. That didn't happen though. Between Austin frying the turkey and me trying to clean up the house from Christmas we didn't get away until almost 10. The kids were great on the drive up. They watched a movie of course! 
We arrived right at lunch time. Everyone else was already there. We ate lunch soon after we arrived. I think we were all quite hungry. After lunch we cleaned up and then went straight to presents. This is always a highlight especially for the kids! We did the usual everyone open up a present one at a time then we played the game. Both were fun but pawpaw was definitely missed. After presents the kids went outside to play. They played Nerf guns and basketball. It was good to see them all outside playing together. The cousin relationship is so sweet and special. I love how well they all play. They are growing up so fast though! They are now 12, 10, 8, and 5. The rest of the afternoon we just hung out and visited while the kids played. It was a nice afternoon. Around 6 we could tell everyone was getting hungry. It was finally decided that we would all go to Zaxby's for dinner. This was a new and fun thing to do! It was nice to extend the visiting a bit longer. We got to visit with Dianne and Todd a lot during this time. After dinner we went back to the apartment to get the kids to bed. It had been a long and busy few days! It was nice to have a few quiet moments that night. 
We slept in a bit on Tuesday morning. We had a light breakfast then went over to his mom's house to pick her up and bring her home with us a few days. Again a new tradition. I will blog about that later!