Gainesville for Christmas

After Christmas, we headed down to Gainesville for a few days for a visit with Jonathan’s side of the family.  Unfortunately, it rained for nearly our entire visit so we weren’t able to do many of the activities we had planned.  Fortunately, we had a good time hanging out anyways.  We always do when the whole crew invades Nana and PopPop’s house.  Rain and not many outdoor activities = not a lot of photos.  I just snapped a few when we opened each other’s Christmas gifts.









{family friend long and his daughter belen—jonathan grew up with long and i went to college with him.  he was in our wedding.}





{this is gator’s “help me find a quiet corner away from all of the crazy kids” face.}


{we brought ella’s new sewing machine down to florida so that aunt jacqui could help us get all set up on it.  i’ve never sewn a stitch on a machine in my life, so i was of no use to her.  i keep having aspirations that i’ll learn on ella’s machine, but then decide that it’s just easier to let her sew it for me.}