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!

Cookie Party

  As always we hosted our annual cookie party!  We are so grateful to those who were able to come join us in getting into the holiday spirit!  We continually feel blessed to live close to family.  We love spending time with them, especially during the holidays! 

Larin, Heather, Troy, Jessi and Shawn

 Heather and Grandma JoAnn

 Heather was obsessed with having her picture taken with the decorations 

Cookies, cookies, cookies 

 Grandpa Vance and Keagan enjoying the cookies

 Wyatt and Kabree

Katie still licking the jam out of the cookies!

    When Katie was little she use to lick the jam out of my Raspberry shortbread cookies and leave the rest of the cookies, so you would see a pile of jamless cookies on the table.  Yes she has grown out of it (well at least she eats the rest of the cookie now) but I don't think we will ever let her live it down!!!

Wyatt (also a jam licker), Jessica and Mckenna 

Sam and Kimberly 

 Keagan put on quite the show going crossed eyed for everyone!!!

 Santa did a run by!!!!!

     He could only say hi and was hurrying off to check on a few other boys and girls in the neighborhood.  But he did leave a M&M candy cane for each of the kids!

    Recently as you can see I have become obsessed with photo booth props, luckily for me my family is just as obsessed and think they are just as much fun as I do!!!!

Shay, Katie, Whitney

Heather and Keagan 

 Bella, Keagan and Whitney

 Shawn was a little scared of Keagan "helping" him

 Bella, Hanna, Mattie and Sam

 Jeff and Whitney

 Sam, Bella and Kimberly

 Keagan and Shay

Jessi, JoAnn and Heather  

The hardest part of a party......the good byes!!

  We had such a fun night enjoying yummy food, the Christmas lights and even better company.  Our house might be on the small side (someday our basement will be finished ; ) but we always feel blessed when it's full of the ones we love!  

Happy 97th!!!

    Happy birthday Grandpa Harrison!!!  We got to celebrate Grandpas 97th birthday last week!  Not everyone was able to make it but it was great to see everyone who was able to come! 

 Lori, JoAnn, Dale and Lucille

Grandpa is still healing from his fall a few weeks ago, but he is looking great!

Because you can never have too much cake!!!  

Heather, Jessi, Hayden, Kelli, and Jamie

Eric and Keagan 

Larin, Wyatt and Jessica

Cassidy and Morgan

Shawn and Tracy

Vance and Katie 

Zach and Kabree

Hayden, Cassidy, Keagan and Kabree

My girls LOVE my cousins kids....there was lots of tears when we had to say good bye! 

Mason riding the goat

    The girls were so excited and fascinated by the goats!  Kabree decided to jump on one all by herself!  Well the goat; being a goat, lunged forward and took off dumping Kabree in the poop!  She hurried and jumped up and said "I'm not doing that again!"  After riding the goats the girls quickly realized it was time for good byes and were so sad, but their good byes were made a little easier by an invitation to visit the Cortas when the first good snow hits for a sleigh ride!!!!

    It was a lot of fun to get together with cousins we don't often see, enjoy  yummy food and celebrate our amazing Grandpa!