More Christmas

More photos from Christmas:

Up at my mom's, my brother and Lin (and their dogs!) and my sister and Ethan and Jade were all there.

Chris with Louie and Charlie

Dog lover!

Our annual post-Christmas hike through the woods. All the kids complained  that they didn't want to take the long way this year. I was just praying we didn't bump into the local bear

Silliness with Lin

Cousin time!

The Henna Lady bought me some extensions - lol!

Happy to get to spend QT with my brother and sister. I usually only get to see them at Christmas time

They look too happy to be saying good-bye

A few days after we got back to MA we finally made it down to our place in Falmouth. I wish we could have stayed longer, but we celebrated Mike and Maureen's birthday on the 30th, then New Year's Eve we went out for Chinese food then played Just Dance on the new XBOX

Happy 2016!

We headed back to Braintree after New Year's

Ava getting in her Coopah time

Spending time with her godfather. By the looks of it, this was John's first selfie!

More cousins

Before we knew it, we were back at Logan heading back 'home'. Unfortunately we did not get another upgrade to Business Class this time. For some reason they put Mike and I together in the exit row, so the kids had to sit behind us. Made no sense to me and we couldn't change our seats because we were in the last now and it was too complicated. Thankfully the kids are seasoned travelers and didn't need much from us.

I specifically left our tree up in Krakow, in the hopes that the whole house would smell like Christmas when we got back. Sadly this was not the case. We were just greeted by our sad, neglected tree that didn't smell at all : (

We got back on a Tuesday and since Wednesday was a holiday in Poland (the Epiphany), Asia was at our house when we got there - which also meant that our Stella was waiting for us! Despite our excitement to see her, she wanted nothing to do with us because she was mad and gave us the cold shoulder for most of the day. Luckily she warmed up by the following day and spent most of it snuggled in my lap.

Stella!