December Has Kept Us Busy

I feel like I have so much to get caught up on. We have had such a fun holiday season and have been so busy. I am trying to just briefly catch up on a few fun things that we have done this past month. We did so much, but the one thing that I did not get around to doing was a family Christmas picture, which I am still feeling guilty about because I bought the kids outfits months ago! On the Sunday before Christmas my kids were both still so sick as well as Brian so we didn't even get a family picture all dressed up which I am totally bummed about....oh well, I guess these pictures will have to do.
CHRISTMAS MORNING
That feeling of excitement hit me that morning as I was waiting for the kids to wake up on Christmas. Seriously, they had to sleep in till almost 9:30?! I could hardly wait any longer and wanted to go wake them up myself. I know that I should enjoy these Christmas mornings when the kids aren't coming to our room to wake us up at 4am, like we use to do to our parents. But I was just excited because this year Brynnly actually understands it a little more.



CHRISTMAS DAY we went out to visit Chad at his "hotel" as Brynnly calls it. We had such a great time spending the day with him and playing games with the family. Chad is doing awesome and having such a good attitude about what he is doing. It makes me so happy to see him doing so well. We only could stay will 4 and you bet we stayed right up until the last minute with him!


DADDY'S WORK RETREAT

Brian had a work retreat out at Wild Horse Pass Hotel and each manager got their own room, so after toughening it out one night alone without him, I decided the next night that if daddy can't be home with us, then we will just have to bring the party too him, and that's exactly what we did! The kids loved destroying the hotel room and bouncing on the beds. And I was happy just knowing that even if Brian wasn't their with us all the time, at least he was in the same building!

TRADITIONAL GINGERBREAD HOUSE MAKING AT THE WYLERS

Ever since I can remember we have gone over there and made gingerbread houses, and of course I went through many years where I was too cool for it, but now it is something that I look forward to doing with the kids. Even though my kids still would rather eat all the candy then build a house it still is always a good time.

SICK LITTLE KIDS

It's not the holiday season if my kids don't get sick! They both got really sick for about a week and couldn't keep anything down. It is so sad to see my kids sick, but yet I get lots of cuddling time with them, so I take advantage of it to the fullness! I have never done so much wash in one weeks time period. We had blankets and towels down everywhere.

A LUNCH DATE WITH MY HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS AND OUR KIDS

CABIN TRIP TO THE SNOW

We went up with Britt & her family to the cabin and it was such a nice little get away. It was the first time that the kids have ever been to the snow and they loved it. Bryce could not get enough of sledding, he would just laugh the whole way down and then want to go right back up and go again. Brynnly went down once and realized it was to scary for her, so she decided to just slide down the hill on her bum.

CHUCKEE CHEESE WITH THE HESS'S

Our friends from college came to town from Idaho and it was nice to get together with them and get to meet their cute little girl, Tatum.