Conner Clan

The Trip

After loading about 2/3 of the photos I realized I should have just made this post a slide show because there are so many pictures, but I wasn't about to erase all my uploaded work. So, here's a long post!

After Christmas we set out on a road trip. We first drove 13 hours to Kentucky and stayed a day with Darren's family. Then we drove 14 hours to Minnesota and stayed with my brother Jerry for New Year's. My other Brother Stewart and his family came as well. We then drove 14 hours back to Kentucky and then 12 back to Virginia for a grand total of: 53+ hours in the car. It was so good seeing family, but it was soooooo good getting out of the van too!

Grandma Conner's Christmas tree! So huge and pretty!

Grandma Conner and Jacob

Lily and Cora

Rebecca, Grandma Conner, and Misty the dog.

Misty kissing Jake. pretty funny!

Cute Cora

Darren and Jacob

Baby Doon

Baby Coby

Dawn and Coby

Debi and Tony

Debi and Bell

Baby blessings

Curtis and his babies!

Debi and Tony

Debi

MINNESOTA!!! Brrrrrrrr! Here are the kids outside playing in the snow with their cousins!

Ethan trying to throw a snowball at Lily

Ethan and Seth, nope not brothers! But cousins. They could almost be twins.

Ashton and Ben. Ben is almost 1 full year younger than Ashton! He is TALL!!!

Guitar Hero

Seth, Brooke, Ben, Sarah, Ethan

Me and Stewart playing on Ethan's dsi

Stewart and Darren battling it out on guitar hero

All this kids and their dsi's.

Shannon and baby Elizabeth

Jerry with Ethan and Ashton

Jen making her baby Elizabeth smile!

Stewart with Elizabeth

Let's eat!

Cute Brooke

Stewart feeding Jacob

Jerry and Josh

New Year's Eve feast! They went all out! They had risotto balls, coconut shrimp, bacon wrapped scallops, shrimp, wings, pies, candy, and tons of fun drinks!

Me and Stu

Me and Jerry

Me and Shan

Wow! Jen and me! We have long tongues!

Me and the hubby

Slow down there jr.!

Games!

So serious Lily! ;)

Then Jerry and Jen were kind enough to take us to Great Wolf Lodge for a couple days. It was AWESOME!!! The kids had so much fun! It's this huge indoor water park. It's fun to be swimming inside and look out and see snow! I'll post more pics from this place later when I get them!

Cute Lily. You'd never guess she had the stomach flu here!

Ashton in the wave pool!

Jacob had a blast!

Daddy and Lily getting ready to go down a ride!

Here they come!

Lazy river

Ashton loved the kid slides!

Brooke, Sarah, and Lily

1, 2, 3, 4 I declare a thumb war!

Christmas

Darren reading the kids "The Night Before Chrismtas"

The kids with santa's "set-up" of goodies.

The Magic

Christmas Morning! Santa left such a nice letter. He drank all his milk and ate his cookies and Rudolph even came and drank water, and when his nose touched the water, it turned red!

Playing their electronics! ;)

Lily's new dance costume. She loves it!

Jake's ready to eat! ;)

Darren's Birthday

Darren turned 31 on December 20th. This year he got some new church clothes, and inversion table for his back, and a new cell phone. He's had the same cell phone for over 4 years and it was on it's last leg. So Ethan and I secretly bought him a new phone. It was torture for Ethan to keep it a secret, but he made it!