After a great time in Bend, Scott and I woke up around 4 am and took off on a 5:30 am flight to Houston. Yes, we are crazy, but it worked out great because we got in around 3 Houston time and still had some of Christmas day left to hang out!
My family postponed the normal Christmas Eve celebrations so that Scott could experience the whole Moriarty Christmas, haha. He was in for a surprise! Hanging out in Bend was very calm, and very adult oriented. Hanging out in Houston was very kid oriented - both are so fun but just in completely different ways! So, we had a "Christmas Eve" meal like usual, hung out with the fam and opened up our Christmas PJ's! Every year my mom used to get the girls matching PJ's and as the family has grown, she has started getting them for the husbands and children as well. This year was a "Watt Christmas" because JJ Watt of the Texans is the biggest thing going on in Houston right now! We took lots of pictures, got through some of the crying (the kids don't like taking forever for pictures, haha) and made our pyramid as usual. All the husbands were very good sports!
The next morning we got to do "Christmas morning" with Courtney's family - her kids are still young enough that Santa coming one night later was no sweat off their back :) It was super fun to watch her oldest, Jay, get so excited for his toys, and Charley was as happy as she could be with her new things, too!
We had Christmas morning breakfast casserole, and then we spent most of the rest of the day cooking and getting ready for Christmas dinner and present opening! The families each do their own present opening at their houses, but we exchange aunt/uncle/cousin/grandparent gifts at my parents house on Christmas day.
It was super fun and super crazy as usual! Scott got a taste of a little bit different type of Christmas, haha :)
The rest of the time was spent just hanging out and spending as much time with people as we could! Taking walks, enjoying the good/cool weather in Houston, going to the Houston Zoo (which was SO fun!), and probably a bunch more things I can't think of right this second!
It was so great to spend time with my family and have Scott around to see my family's traditions and just get some quality time in! After a great trip we headed back to LA on New Year's Eve!
Here are some pics from Houston Christmas - again, I had more on my own camera, but have to get my memory card fixed :/
My family postponed the normal Christmas Eve celebrations so that Scott could experience the whole Moriarty Christmas, haha. He was in for a surprise! Hanging out in Bend was very calm, and very adult oriented. Hanging out in Houston was very kid oriented - both are so fun but just in completely different ways! So, we had a "Christmas Eve" meal like usual, hung out with the fam and opened up our Christmas PJ's! Every year my mom used to get the girls matching PJ's and as the family has grown, she has started getting them for the husbands and children as well. This year was a "Watt Christmas" because JJ Watt of the Texans is the biggest thing going on in Houston right now! We took lots of pictures, got through some of the crying (the kids don't like taking forever for pictures, haha) and made our pyramid as usual. All the husbands were very good sports!
The next morning we got to do "Christmas morning" with Courtney's family - her kids are still young enough that Santa coming one night later was no sweat off their back :) It was super fun to watch her oldest, Jay, get so excited for his toys, and Charley was as happy as she could be with her new things, too!
We had Christmas morning breakfast casserole, and then we spent most of the rest of the day cooking and getting ready for Christmas dinner and present opening! The families each do their own present opening at their houses, but we exchange aunt/uncle/cousin/grandparent gifts at my parents house on Christmas day.
It was super fun and super crazy as usual! Scott got a taste of a little bit different type of Christmas, haha :)
The rest of the time was spent just hanging out and spending as much time with people as we could! Taking walks, enjoying the good/cool weather in Houston, going to the Houston Zoo (which was SO fun!), and probably a bunch more things I can't think of right this second!
It was so great to spend time with my family and have Scott around to see my family's traditions and just get some quality time in! After a great trip we headed back to LA on New Year's Eve!
Here are some pics from Houston Christmas - again, I had more on my own camera, but have to get my memory card fixed :/
Making our famous and yummy Sausage and Cheese Balls
My nephew Josh :) This is about how the night goes with all of the kids!
Our yearly pyramid, it just keeps growing and growing!
And the collapse
A video on this would have been awesome!
Grandsons! This was a pretty good pic, haha
Daughters
Daughters and kids (thanks for loaning me yours sisters!)
Supposed to be a pic of the son in laws, but the big boys were doing their version of photo bombing and Austen and Charley were for real photo bombing, hahaha - the two little ones crack me up!
:)
Granddaughters - so sweet!
Christmas morning at the Squillantes
Scott and I with Charley Kate
Owen making his entrance with his donut holes!
Jill (my flower girl) and her wedding dress from Grandeb - she loved it!
Scott with Jay and Owen (this is a big deal that Jay was obsessed with Scott for a bit because he used to be so shy with Scott!)
Scott with Jay, Owen and Josh
Son in laws without the photo bombers - again, such good sports
Just a pic to try to show some of the craziness
Jay and his moustache pappy :) Uncle Scott was proud
Uncle Scott feeding Austen :)
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