What's Up With the David's: Christmas part Deux!

For the second and third acts of our Christmas Production, we travelled to San Diego to be with my family. Since my sister Jen just had little Amelie, everyone decided to go to them in La Jolla this year. Christmas Eve was spent, as always, with all the Sandoval's...Grammy Delora, Adam, Marina and Kasey, plus we had the addition of Mimi and Papa this year. So with my family of 3 and Jen's family of 4, it was a full house, but we wouldn't have it any other way. I love that we have a beautifully blended, happy family!

Then on Christmas morning Jess and Donna drove up from LA to see the kiddos open their gifts. I just have to say that Donna is crazy - she's 5 months pregnant and got up at 5:00 am so they could be in San Diego when the kids woke up. We really lucked out in the sister-in-law department because Donna is awesome and adores our kids! She's going to be a great mama to baby Charlie who's due in May!!

Besides opening gifts, which seemed to last for days, the kids had an absolute blast together. Jack and Marseille are best buds and they just adore each other (although you can't really tell from the pictures below). It's so cool to see them chase each other around the house, holding hands ands hugging. Each morning they would wake up and say each other's names....too cute! I know that Jack really misses her. And Amelie is just the sweetest baby ever - I loved cuddling with her all weekend! We had such a great time at Jen's with all of us together - I miss them so much!

After a big Mexican breakfast Christmas morning, we headed to Oceanside to visit the rest of my extended family...the Barber Clan! My Uncle Russ and Aunt Debbie live just 20 minutes from Jen so it worked out great for us. And all of my other aunts, uncles and cousins drove in from all over SoCal so we had about 40 people there. Pretty standard for a Barber Holiday...and that's not even all of us! I grew up with this big ole crazy family so I love it! I remember we always had lots of babies and kids running around during the holidays and I couldn't wait for the day that my kid would be one of them. So this year, having Jack there with all the other kids was really special for me. Jack has dozens of cousins so he was in heaven.

I have to say this was one of the most special and memorable Christmas's that I can remember. Just having Christian and Jack with me is blessing enough, but to also have such an amazing and loving family makes it that much better. I guess that fact that I am posting 22 pictures is a testament to what a wonderful holiday I had. You've been warned...there are a LOT!

My boys in there matching, and might I add sharp, holiday duds!

As always, we try in vain to get an absolutely adorable picture of the 3 cousins. But it never works and this trip was no exception. What you don't see in these pics are the 6 adults acting like fools trying to capture a good shot. Here are Marseille and Amelie in their beautiful dresses...we're off to a good start!