Friday, December 29, 2017

Christmas

Before we left the kids got to open their stockings

Caleb and I exchanged our gifts before we left too...buttt I forgot to take any pictures.

Then we started the forever long drive to New York


And while I still didn't get all the pictures I wanted, here's some of the ones I did remember to take.

Italian Affair is the best!

Jo and Anson
helping Papa plow

Christmas with the family.  We were just missing Pat's family :(
ugly sweater party







hot chocolate out of glass bottles, just like we had at my grandma's house when I was little
There was tons of snow while we were there.  The kids had a blast!









The kids each got a little money to pick out gifts for each other this year.  They opened them on Christmas Eve with their new PJs.  Their reactions were so sweet.  I, of course, forgot to get the PJ picture and the traditional one in front of the tree.




Christmas morning




And that's what I remembered to take.  We saw tons of family, so my apologies to anyone who wasn't captured!  I don't have my phone much on our New York visits.

A big thank you to my mom and dad.  They made this one of our best Christmases yet.  We were spoiled to the max!

We had a cold, but beautiful ride home

And Caleb knew I was feeling down from leaving family and surprised me with a date night in.  He is the sweetest!

Thursday, December 21, 2017

December

I'm sure i'll have lots of Christmas pictures, so here's the first half of our month.

For the sake of all of our family's ears, we gave one of the kid's presents to them early....a karaoke machine.  They've been asking for one ever since they sang at a friend's house and we got a great deal!







We went to our town Christmas tree lighting.  There was a visit from santa arriving in a fire truck, hot apple cider, and cookies.  The kids loved it.




Caleb's made his famous wings :)



And we unexpectedly got our first snow of the year!  The 2 inches we got, of course, shut the county down for a few days.  Casen and Arya were soo excited.  They played outside for hours.