Hodge and His Family: Christmas with the Cousins 2010!

We had Christmas with all of Matt's cousins last weekend in Abilene. This is our second year to have Meme's Christmas in Abilene and to celebrate Christmas early. It was also Meme's 85th birthday last Friday so we headed up to Abilene Friday afternoon to have dinner with her and the rest of the family. Hodge was very happy to see his Yaya (Matt's mom) at dinner Friday night, he hugged her for about five minutes when we first got there. He loves spending time with his Yaya and Teadaddy! Saturday all the cousins arrived at Julianne and Steve's house. Hodge had the best time with all of his cousins. Hodge also had fun playing the piano at Julianne and Steve's house. Steve also taught him how to play the drum. Hodge kept going over to the piano and the drum and saying, "I like this!" He would play the drum and tell Zane to play the piano at the same time. We also went bowling which is a long family tradition. Matt's family gets everyone together and bowls during our Christmas with the cousins. This is the only time during the year that we bowl. This year Hodge got to wear bowling shoes and he even bowled a little. After bowling we had our gift exchange and the kids had fun playing with their new toys. We had a great Christmas with all of the cousins. Hodge has talked about it all week!

Hodge playing the piano with Zane and Kallie.

Zane on the piano and Hodge on the drum entertaining everyone!

If you notice Hodge's head in bottom of this photo, he was trying to get in Mikel and Aaron's family picture.

I really wanted a photo with all of the girls cousins. I thought I was missing two girl cousins then I noticed my niece Summer was in this photo. She is on the floor, under a chair by the poinsettia. (It is likes Where's Waldo but Where's Summer, she is so cute!) McKenzie is not in this photo, I was one girl cousin short in this one.