Merry Christmas From the Marks Family

We left Alabama on Friday morning in route to Apalachicola to visit with Nate's family for a while. It took us an unusually long time to get to Apalach due to the holiday traffic, but Ryder was quite a trooper. We had a delicious Christmas dinner at MiMi's house and then opened presents. It was pretty wild with both little boys there, but I think that Ryder had a lot of fun. He decided while opening gifts that he needed to wear MiMi's salad spinner on his head like a hat. It was HILARIOUS! He wore it until we forced him to take it off as we were leaving. He also got really attached to Sadie's (MiMi's dog) old toy. He's seen this thing hundreds of times, but it was somehow different this time. Little boys are strange!

The best part of Christmas at MiMi's was getting to see Uncle Paul and Aunt Shellie, Nate's brother and sister-in-law. They live in Birmingham so we don't get to see them very often. Ryder really loves his Uncle Paul and they look eerily alike. I forgot to take a pic of those two together so I'll have to do some digging in my photo archive to see if I can find one. Another great thing about this Christmas was the weather. It was so warm once we got back in Florida that Ryder wore just a t-shirt and went barefoot. Gotta love the Florida weather! I swear that my child does own pants...he just doesn't like to wear them.