MIPHONE DUMP: MY MONTH IN TEXAS

For our very first Christmas as a married couple Dallas and I spent the holidays in Texas. After the new year, Dallas had to go to Arizona for a course for his work, but I stayed put in Texas to visit while he was away. I was visiting there for 4 weeks, so I really got the full holiday experience.
  It was so exciting to be apart of all of the Packard family traditions and see all the magic happen and make new memories together.

Here are some highlights:
-Witnessing the insane onslaught of presents for all 26 people in attendance under the tree
-Hogging the eggnog with Eden and Reese
-Spying on Santa (which is by the way a full out production)
-Their Christmas morning tradition of everyone receiving their favorite cereal
-Witnessing the complete pandemonium of 14 children opening Christmas presents simultaneously
-The party bus tour of the best Christmas lights around Dallas
-Girls trip to Sam Moon with all the mommies, aunties and nieces
-Doing a LOT of coloring
-Family temple trip
-Making BBQ'd pork pizza with Dallas with our new Kitchenaid! (THANKS SANTA!)
-Binge watching all the Lord of the Rings, Hobbit, and Harry Potter films
-Late night nerts games where Dad never looses
-Walking through show homes with a fine tooth comb
-browsing the massive flea market and loving on all the puppies
-Tegan nearly peer presuring me into buying a puppy at Mckinney trade days
-Working our tails off with Grandpa Packard at the farm
-watching Belly and Dale
-Piersons epic herd your horses comeback
-Stomping pavement and antique shopping with Mom in McKinney's Historic Downtown
-Taking Tegan London and Paris out for a girls date to DQ and Super Target
-FHE marshmallow bonfire
-Refashioning 24/7 with Reese and Mom