It's Christmas Time in Texas!

We celebrated Christmas at PaPa's a couple days before Christmas. Then went to Christmas Eve Children's Mass and had Christmas Day at home; enjoying the reason for the season.

 Sarah Luke Camryn Emily Grant Gavin and Slade

 Santa Grant handing out gifts at PaPa's

 Art and Rusty on their Blackberries, checking on fantasy football stats; I'm sure.

 Margaret and PaPa talking after dinner.

 Aunt Danna and Uncle Ronny make the drive every year to celebrate Christmas with us at my Dad's.

 Gavin got a Skylander Swap Force!

 Camryn and Gavin 

 presents, yay!

 Neither one of them are looking at the camera, but 

I thought this was a sweet pic of Slade and Emily.

 Merry Christmas from Slade

 Gavin and Slade at Children's Mass on Christmas Eve

 Slade wanted to take a pic with the huge wreath outside Holy Family :-)

 Santa delivered gifts to the good Ortegas

 This gift has several other boxes wrapped inside it. 

It about drove Gavin crazy to open one gift just to find another inside and another... Lol!

 This is what was inside. Not really the puppy, but a picture of her. Her name is Ruby and she'll be ready to leave her mom for us to bring her home on January 29th which is Art's birthday. Yay, new puppy!

 Hurricane Slade plowing through gifts

 Gavin likes to take his time opening his gifts.

 A bb gun!

 Ooh, a dump truck!

Merry Christmas Vacation

 PaPa took us on a family vacation over Christmas break. We took at cruise out of Galveston to Cozumel. It was awesome and all 15 of us had a great time together!

 Sarah Camryn and Slade looking for treasures in Cozumel.

 Gavin and Grant enjoying the ocean.

 Steve Art and Rusty having a cold one on the beach.

 Camryn and Gavin searching for shells.

 Slade loved the kayak

 Gavin getting his snorkeling gear ready.

 Sarah Rusty and Emily having fun in the water.

 Snorkeling Gavin

 Camryn and Sarah relaxing in the sand.

 Slade and Art taking a ride.

 Slade checking out the waves.

 There were 3 resident raccoons that visited us at the Cozumel beach we went to.

 Also many peacocks. This is the only male we saw.

 female peacock visiting us at the beach

 Scuba Rusty

 Emily is having fun burying shoes in the sand.

 Luke and Slade building a sand castle.

 Gavin Camryn and Sarah having fun in the surf.

 Slade digging in the sand.

 View from our balcony on our last day at sea. 

 Sunset from our balcony

 Captain Slade

 Kim and Emily

 Emily and Grant

 Sarah Camryn Gavin Slade Emily and Luke at dinner our last night at sea.

 Slade being Slade 

 He's wearing a shirt that he decorated at Kid's Camp

Hanging out at EA Sports Bar while watching the Cowboys game.

First pic taken, Day 1, right when we hit the Lido deck!

 Group pic on last night

Luke Camryn and Gavin - Day 1

 Uh oh... Look at PaPa's face, Lol!

 Gangsta Slade

PaPa and Margaret