The Anthonys: RANCH Christmas

2 days after Christmas, we loaded up Travis' truck with enough stuff to last a month and headed down south to my grandparents' house in D'Hanis, Tx.

Our kiddos thoroughly enjoyed the down time with Mamaw and Papaw. We did a lot of nothing Thursday AND Friday. Just played and waited for the rest of the family to join us.

Mamaw couldn't get enough of this sweet girl, and I can't blame her!

Saturday around noon was the official ZMZ Ranch Christmas. I wanted a picture of these three stinkers before we left the house, but it's officially impossible to get a good picture of a 7 month old, 3 1/2 year old and 13 month old. :)

Colby's favorite part of being at the ranch is driving daddy's truck

Believe it or not, we had EIGHT new babies born in 2012. (That's not including Macey, who was born at the very end of 2011) Only 4 of the babies were able to come to ranch Christmas, but they were all SO CUTE!!!!

Cami (with her typical half smile) and Kimberly

Addison (almost 12 months) and Sarah with Mimsy and Camryn

Cami with her FIRST ranch stocking

I think this year we had somewhere around 28 kiddos who were 18 and under for stockings. Colby thought it was awesome to sing Jingle Bells and Rudolph with the big kids. He didn't realize that we were just distracting them so we could take pictures.

I wasn't sure what I was going to do with Cami....I really didn't want to sit on the floor with her, so I just plopped her down and she was so happy!!

Mamaw and her sister-in-laws Aunt Jeanice and Aunt Vivian

After stockings, the adults get to do their Chinese gift exchange. It's always entertaining and this year did not disappoint.

These girls were so happy with their grandpas

The kids got marshmallow guns in their stockings, so they were SUPER entertained while the adults did their gift exchange. Colby was such a big kid running around outside with his cousins. He had a BLAST! It was so nice that he was busy and having fun and we could just watch him from inside. :)

apparently it was girls vs. boys

This sums up the gift exchange for the guys...

After ZMZ Christmas, we celebrated Christmas with just our family at Mamaw and Papaw's house. The kiddies opened their presents and the adults did a gift exchange. I was REALLY hoping to go home with the gift I brought, but at the last second it was stolen right out from under me! BOOO! :) I still got a super cute Christmas plate though, so it's all good.