Christmas with the McFaddens, Pablo & Team Tilson

Today was the big day that Pablo, Cortney, Jack & Griffin headed in to town for our little Christmas gathering. We spent the day hanging out and then in the evening Team Tilson came over to open gifts and eat dinner.

Here is Ava when she saw P & the McF's driving up...pure excitement!
Ava was excited to see Pablo! or Plablo as she says.

Ava in her super hero cape and wristbands courtesy of C, J & G. Too cute--etsy is such a great place for this kind of stuff and Cortney really got a lot of cute stuff for the kids there.

Gabe & kids getting ready to open gifts. The whole gift opening scene was a bit chaotic and no good pictures really came out of it as 3 of the 4 kids (excluding G) were just opening gift after gift and running about. Pretty fun (despite the crazy tantrum Ava had -- no nap = unhappy Ava).

And my favorite: making Cortney cry upon opening Griffin's custom storybook (http://mokru.blogspot.com/2010/01/custom-storybook.html) about coming to Texas to visit family. I knew I could get her to cry! No it really was a great reaction and I'm so happy she loved it as I put a lot of time into it.

Thanks everyone for everything! Only wish we could have had more time together.