Our Christmas Wrap-Up

We have been so busy the last few weeks with all our fun Christmas activities that I have fallen behind on my blogging. In an effort to get caught up before next Christmas, I will hit on a couple of our highlights from the holidays. Warning: LOTS of pictures!!
The kids were off of school for over two weeks and Andy had the same amount of time off of work. I had all these ideas of fun things we would do as a family to fill the time, but we only got around to one of them!!
We had a fun family party up in Morgan(where Andy is from and where his parents still live). We do this every year with his mom's side of the family. We have a great meal, play Christmas bingo, play Christmas carols on kazoos, and everyone opens a present.

The whole fam

Ethan got an Elmo Live toy. He was not so sure about it when it was talking and moving. He had fun watching it move and trying to copy what it did.

Getting used to elmo and being brave enough to touch it!

The kids and their loot!



We went back to Andy's parents house after the party. The boys were anxious to play their new gameboy games and wasted no time doing so. Their cousin Lily wanted to see too so she crawled over to Spencer and laid on him like this while he played. I thought this was so funny!


Andy's parents and brother came down to spend Christmas Eve with us. I fixed a ham dinner and we ate too much! We were so full we could barely eat dessert! We read the story of Christ's birth in the Bible, watched a short 5 minute DVD depicting the birth of Jesus called the Nativity. We watch it every year, it is one of my favorites! Then it was time for the kids to open their traditional Christmas Eve present of pajamas.




The kids in their new pajama's.

They always have to do a silly face picture!

We ended Christmas Eve with a story by the tree. We tried to do this every night while the tree was up. The kids would take turns picking a Christmas book and we would snuggle under the tree for a bit while we read.


We spent Christmas morning at home. Santa brought the kids a Wii and they were SUPER EXCITED!!! We have had so much fun playing games together. We spent the rest of Christmas Day with Andy's family. We had a wonderful holiday season and love all the time we got to spend with our families!





Reading some of his new books with Grandpa John. Ethan would look at books all day if he could!

Having a Christmas snack with his cousin Avery


I had to add this picture because I thought it was too cute! On one of our MANY trips up north Kaden was listening to his IPOD. Ethan loves music and wanted to listen too. Kaden was sweet enough to share one of his ear buds. Ethan just zoned out and listened for quite a while!