Oney Family Christmas

Every year the weekend or two before Christmas my mom's extended family, The Oney's get together for our Christmas.  Aunt Teresa (TT)  flies in from Florida and we are all so excited to see her!  Mamaw comes down from Eastern Kentucky and Todd the youngest brother comes in with his wife and kids from Nashville.  It is one of the only times (sometimes the only time) we all get together throughout the year.  We had a great time being together.  Here are the four cousins. (Todd' kids and my kids) Sam, Maya, Lyla and Kyle.

Maya loves Kyle!  It was such a mild day they got to go to the park and play for a  long time together. 

My dear Papaw passed away in 1997 so Mamaw is the glue of our family.  Here she is with all the kiddos.

We all went to our favorite family tradition dinner place to eat, Giovanni's in Nicholasville.  If you haven't ever eaten at one I strongly suggest you do! Here is a group photo of all us after we got home.  This is such a special picture because it has all of the generations.  Mamaw is on the couch with all of her children and the grandkids and great grandkids are on the floor.

 

I am always sad to see our time together come to an end, especially with Teresa because we don't get to see her very often.  I have so many wonderful memories of spending our holidays together at my Mamaw and Papaw's when I was growing up.  My grandparents are wonderful people who instilled such a sense of faith and family in us.  My papaw would be so proud to know that all of his children and grandchildren are Christians.  That is all he ever wanted for us was to know Jesus.  He read the Christmas story from Luke Chapter 2 to us every year, a tradition that Todd has continued since his passing.  I miss him so much, especially at Christmas. 

Time flies when you are having fun and the week with Teresa here was gone before we knew it.  We had a blast and laughed a lot.  One night we drove through Southern Lights and laughed so hard and had such a great time.  Here are some pictures we took before we headed for the airport.

I already can't wait until we can all be together again!