Tripp & Katie Hollowell

Tripp & Katie Hollowell
Christmas 2014

Monday, December 29, 2014

Hollowell Christmas 2014

Our time in Helena consisted of mostly eating, sleeping, laying around in PJs all day and more eating :)

We had our nice Christmas dinner on Sunday the 28th. Jay cooked prime rib and it was so yummy! Pudd brought these napkins - thought they were hilarious. She wouldn't let us use them... she just wanted to show us them ha!








We bought MA & Jay a new TV for Christmas... I watched Harry Potter for a bit on it!




Friday, December 26, 2014

Christmas Day

We woke up and headed to Memom and Rannan to watch Barrett see what Santa brought! We stayed at M&R's on Christmas Eve until about 1am, so we got about 6 hours of sleep :) We didn't want to miss Barrett's first time to really understand Santa on Christmas morning. He was SO precious!

Here were his goodies!


Giny & MA with Brooks



He wasn't so sure about all of these crazy Collins in one room ;)



A mist the chaos of 22 people opening presents Christmas morning - love every second of it.




I think my boo looks gooooood with a baby ;)




Ryan & Tripp with Brooks & Barrett - those two have too much fun together whispering and making jokes. They are both "outlaws" who love to remind us of this quite often.



Dixie was wiping Barrett's nose and Tripp thought it was nasty ha.


Memom and Rannan always make the best breakfast after we finish opening gifts. I actually helped Memom with the gravy this time. I had never made gravy before. It was quite the task and I have a lot of respect for gravy-makers now.


We ate a yummy breakfast with the fam and then got on the road to Helena about 1:30. We ate dinner at Pudd's with the Gentry's. I didn't take any pics :(

Pudd gave MA, Susanne and I some of her old Christmas decorations. I got a merry go round and I cannot wait to put it up in years to come. It still works perfectly and plays music. Here is a pic of our goodies :)


Wednesday, December 24, 2014

2014 Collins Progressive Party

We held the annual Collins Progressive Party on 12/23. Love this tradition!!

We started at my parents house in Rogers. Not all of the family could come, so people trickled in as we went through the day. My mom did such a great job decorating - loved it all.









We headed over to our house for afternoon drinks...



Love our hutch decorated with Christmas china!



Then down to Fayetteville for dinner at Aunt KK's and Uncle Scott's! Most everyone had arrived by this stop of the party.






Last stop at Memom and Rannan's for dessert - Bananas Foster! This was the first Christmas for Baby Brooks (Dixie and Ryan's 2nd baby). We all took turns cuddling him!







Tripp & Barrett playing "snakes" - adorable.




Aunt Cheryl ("Gink" to Barrett and Brooks) holding Brooks.