road trippin'

We did it.  We survived our first road trip as a family of four (plus the dog)!  On the day after Christmas, we loaded up the car and headed to Asheville.

We had the wonderful opportunity to celebrate Granny and Grandad's 60th wedding anniversary with family members from Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina.  

Granny and Grandad got to snuggle on their two youngest great grandkids, Addy and Hudson.  The other great grandkids were too busy running around like maniacs to stop and pose for pictures!

This was quite the feat...getting all of the great grandkids to look at the camera at once.  This was the best we could get!

We were able to spend time at both of our parents houses.  It was a relaxing week with good family time.

We also went to the NC Winter Light display at the arboretum.  Lucas loved running through the lights!

We also went to a drive through Christmas light display at the fair grounds, and it was seriously unbelievable. 

Our sweet Addy girl gave out smiles left and right and was completely doted on everywhere we went.

We went to dinner at Wicked Weed one night, and as we were getting up from the table to leave this sweet man walked by and Lucas pointed at him and said "SANTA!" He stopped to talk to Lucas and was totally playing the part.  And the best part was that this man was so Asheville. He was about to drink a beer and his white beard was in a foot long braid.  Love it.

We watched a lot of football (and were heart broken over Bama's loss.  Boo.)

And to top off our first road trip as a family of 4, we bought a car!  No, seriously, we did.  Our ah-ha moment came when we snapped that first picture of our highlander with junk loaded to the top for a simple week long trip.  After Brandon tried to convince me to graduate to a minivan and failed miserably (sorry, minivan moms...I just can't.) we found a great deal on a yukon that gives us the extra room we need.  So we traded in the highlander and came home in this baby.  My new swagger wagon. 

So we put this first road trip down as a win in the book.  Until next time, Asheville!