Brooke and Audrey: Part 2

Christmas Vacation - Gatlinburg

Part 3: Cabin in Gatlinburg - For our final part of our Christmas vacation, we spent three nights in a cabin in Gatlinburg. Our condo was super fun and had an air hockey table, a pool table, a video game with bunch of games from the 80s, and a hot tub!! This part of our vacation was very chill and relaxing.

The girls got to open their magic kit and did many shows for us.

Beautiful Brookie!

Darren and Brooke holding up the mountain

Family picture by the mountains

Family picture by the sign to the nation park - I was so disturbed to find out the Smoky was spelled without an E!

The girls dancing outside of our cabin- Mountain Splendor

About to get into the hot tub - a favorite activity for sure!!

It snowed our last night there - the girls were so excited to see snow!

Some 2 on 1 air hockey

The view from our balcony

It rained one day so we headed to the aquarium

I would freak out if I saw that coming toward me in the ocean!

Inside a bubble with some puffer fish

Audrey as a scuba diver

Love me some jellies!!

Christmas Vacation - Biltmore

Part 2: Biltmore House - After Great Wolf Lodge we headed over to Asheville to see the Biltmore House. We stayed there for two nights at the Inn at Biltmore. We did a tour of the House twice - once at night as a candlelight tour and once the next day. During the day tour we all listened to the audio guide. The girls were very impressive listening to the whole thing!! You can't take pictures inside the house so these are all of things we did outside!

D and I went to the Biltmore Winery for a free wine tasting (free until you purchase vast quantities of the wine!) This was the biggest tasting we've ever been to - they did 23 wines!

We had dinner that night at the Stable - a restaurant built into the old stables at the Biltmore

The girls warming up in front of the fire at the Inn

Me and Brooke on a carriage ride along the grounds of the Biltmore - it was SO COLD!

Audrey and D on the same carriage ride

The family with the back of the Biltmore in the background

D and the girls outside the Biltmore - hard to really appreciate just how big that house is until you try to get the whole house into a picture and still see your family!

Outside the Biltmore

Adorable picture of Brookie!!

This is a picture looking up at the Inn from the area where the winery was

Christmas Vacation - Great Wolf Lodge

Part 1: Great Wolf Lodge - the girls LOVE water slides and it was a super fun winter activity. We were there for two nights and two days of playing in the water park.

The girls love the racer slide

The girls with Violet and some bear after the PJ story time at night

Our room had bunkbeds in a little cut out part that was complete with a TV - the girls were in heaven!!

Audrey striking a pose in front of the lilypad obstacle

D showing off his muscles on the obstacle

The girls got their faces painted - and they both chose Violet

We hit the arcade as a break from the water park

Brookie and the Bear....not Audrey this time!

Actual Christmas

For our actual Christmas this year, we drove to South Carolina to be with Darren's family. After Christmas, the four of us took a road trip, but that will have to be its own separate post as this will already be super long I am sure!

The girls opened some of their large presents before we left. They got some pogo sticks and a barbie dreamhouse.

Also before we left, we had a visit from Santa! It was super fun and the girls were very excited to see him.

The cousins in their matching PJs from Aunt Connie. Sadly this is one of the only pictures that we got of all the kids. Audrey got a fever soon after this and spent the next day quarantined away. And the Fergus family decided to leave a few days early as they had a ski trip planned and did not want to have sick kiddos on the trip.

The loot left by Santa

Picture before the carnage!

Mid carnage....

Post carnage!

Silly hats for me and the girls Christmas morning

Brooke charging up her Flutter Fly (or as she calls it her Flutter Flairy) These were super successful presents - it is so fun to play with and it totally cracks me up to watch them crash to the floor!