Sledding fun

Justice, Libby, Hanna & Kabree

Keagan and Hanna

Keagan riding with Matt 

Keagan taking another turn riding with Heather 

snow angels 

 

 Heather getting the ropes out of the tree

  We got snow for Christmas, so what better way to spend December 26th than sledding!!!  Matt and Heather let Kabree and Keagan join in their sledding fun.  Matt hooked up three sleds to the four-wheeler and the kiddos were entertained for the next 1 1/2 hours!!!  The girls LOVED every second of it!  Thanks Matt and Heather for the fun afternoon!

Spencer & Keri

  We are so blessed to have open adoptions!!!  We get asked questions all the time about how our open adoptions work and why we do it.  All we can say is look at these pictures and you can see why!  Can you see the love an open adoption brings, it didn't happen over night, it grew into this amazing beautiful family!  Our daughters have thee most amazing birth parents and we are so grateful to the four of them.

 Keri, Kabree & Spencer

Kalan, Paedyn & Kabree

  We were so excited that Kabree's Keri and Spencer came to Idaho for a visit this Christmas!  Kabree loves seeing her birth-family!  They spoiled both girls with Frozen blankets and everyone enjoyed the visit!  We love them so much and words could never truly express our gratitude towards them!

Christmas Day

Santa ate our cookies

Waiting to see what Santa brought...7:30 A.M.

 KeKe got a baby doll

Kabree got her Ever After High Doll Raven Queen 

Checking out their stockings

Baby doll clothes 

Toothless hand soap!!!

 Pop guns

 Kabree got Apple White too!!!

Keagan reading her book  

 Kabree was so excited to see she got a Cerise Hood doll

Keagan was super excited about her new Leappad 

 The amazing breakfast crew!!!

Mattie gave Grandpa a hand for a bit

Showing off their new Christmas skirts

 Ethan everyone his new awesome hoppity ball

 Jessi crashing!

Keagan LOVED it! 

Kabree thought it was pretty great too 

Jessica 

JoAnn 

Morgan crashed too 

Grandma JoAnn showing us how it's done 

 Morgan and Keagan

proving yet again that the box is the funnest part of Christmas

 Mattie and Kabree playing with hair chalk and glitter

    What an amazing Christmas!!!  The girls woke up so excited to see what Santa brought them!  They were both very happy to see he found them in Arbon.  Kabree got her Raven Queen doll she asked for and Keagan got a baby doll.  Kabree was beyond excited and surprised when she opened up her presents and saw she got two other Ever After High Dolls and a scooter!  Keagan was pretty excited to see she got a sticker book and diapers for her baby doll.  

    Zach, Larin, Vance and JoAnn all made us an amazing breakfast.  While they worked away in the kitchen the rest of us played with the Hoppity Ball Eathan got for Christmas.  It's a touch harder then it looks :).  Keagan LOVED it and wanted to do it the rest of the morning.  Kabree thought it was great Mattie was willing to do hair chalk and hair glitter with her.  Morgan and Keagan discovered that playing with Grandma's new microwave box was a blast!

    We headed back to Zach's parents for Christmas dinner of enchiladas and more quality time with Skylar and Meagan.  The kids once again played great together.  Making the day even better, when we got back to our house that night we had a wonderful surprise of 6 inches of beautiful snow!!!

    We had such a great Christmas filled with yummy food and lots of family time!  

Christmas Eve

    We had the funnest Christmas Eve yet!!!  We spent time with both families, played with cousins, ate yummy food, told the Christmas story and sang Christmas carols!  Who could ask for anything more?

Grandpa Gary's and Grandma Sally's
    We headed up to Gary and Sally's at noon.  The girls LOVED playing with Skylar and Meagans kiddos while us Mommy's helped Grandma finish up her wrapping!
    Sean, Kira and their kiddos came up and brought pizza.  The kids had so much fun playing together!  They got pretty excited when it was time for presents too!

 Grandma Sally made each of the girls skirts
and she made Kabrees Zebra print, her favorite!!!

    Grandpa Gary and Grandma Sally spoiled the 4 girls with Frozen galore!!!  Elsa pj's, Elsa and Anna costumes and Frozen microphones!!!  Needless to say their was 4 VERY excited girls and lots of squealing going on!!!!

 Kabree

 Paisley

 Lynden 

Therin 

 Singing her heart out

 Thayer and Meagan

    Our little nephew Thayer is the cutest, most laid back baby ever!!!  It's hard not to be baby hungry when snuggling this little guy!

Wade

The boys thought their tool sets were pretty great!

Grandpa Gary & Grandma Sally with their 4 princesses

    We had so much fun with Zach's family!  The kids played great together and loved everything they got!!!  Paisley made the night by squealing at every present opened, even the ones the boys opened.  She was so excited!!!  We are so grateful we were able to spend the day/afternoon with everyone especially Skylar and Meagan before their big move.  We love them and their kids so much and are sad they are leaving but excited for them to start a new adventure.

Grandpa Vance's and Grandma JoAnn's

    We picked up Chinese food on our way out of town to take to Arbon.  It was a super fun and yummy Christmas Eve dinner!  The girls thought it was great and loved the sparkling cider and chopsticks too!

    As always we let the girls open up their Christmas pj's before a quick bath and on to the rest of our Christmas Eve traditions.

Opening Christmas Eve pj's 

Barbie pj's 

Ever After High pj's 

Kabree telling the Christmas story

    We have been working really hard on remembering the true reason we celebrate Christmas and as always we did the Nativity story.  This year we had Kabree tell it and she did Great!!!  After the Nativity story we sang Christmas carols.  Kabree said her favorite was Silent Night and Keagans was Jingle Bells.

 Ready for some Christmas games

 Don't eat Rudolph

Keagan LOVES this game

  

    Larin, Jessica and the kids all came over for a quick visit.  We played a few rounds of Duck, Duck, Goose, Don't Eat Rudolf and we tracked where Santa was! 

 Setting cookies out for Santa!!!

        We had such a family, fun filled Christmas Eve we couldn't have asked for a better one!!!  The girls LOVED that they got to play with so many cousins and that they got to see both sets of Grandparents!  Needless to say it was hard to fall asleep with all the excitement of the day and the anticipation of Santa coming!