Merry Christmas!

For Christmas Eve, as usual we spent our evening over at Grandma and Grandpa Borgstroms.

 We love our family traditions, we usually do a little spiritual thing, any one who wants to share can.  Jaycee played the piano this year. We eat good food, play game and open presents.

 The kids love getting their Christmas PJ's that Grandma makes them.  They are their favorite!

 One of the best parts for the kids is spending so much time with their cousins!

 For a few weeks after Christmas we go through cousin withdrawal.

 We made it home around 10:30.  The kids slept great! Me and Mike got up around 7:30 and the kids got up around 8. Jaycee was the first one up, not long after Wesley was up.

 Grandma and Grandpa Bailey came and visited us, so we woke Bensen up so the kids could get started opening presents.

 From Santa Jaycee got a remote control car, Wesley got a telescope and Bensen got a popper thing.

 We got Wesley and Bensen little tiny remote control cars. 

 It was fun watching them drive them around. Wesley and Jaycee also got little MiP robots that they really like. They all got things to go in their 72 hour kits, like tactical scarfs and pocket knives. Jaycee was pretty excited about her Heely shoes. I got a shark vacuum that I am really excited about! 

 After we got done opening presents we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa Baileys for breakfast. This year we had some breakfast casseroles, ham and french toast. Yum.

 Then we got to open more presents! From the grandparents all the kids got walkie talkie watches. So it got pretty loud!

 Then we got to sit around and visit for a little while.

 I can't even explain how much I love that the kids are so close to their cousins. 

I mean, how cute are they?

After visiting here for a while we went back over to the Borgstroms for a bit and played over there for a while.

I love Christmas, and all the family time we have. I love having Mike home for two weeks. I love playing games and I really love eating! Lucky for me there was a lot of good food to eat! And the best part is I can blame all the weight I've gained on the baby. :)

Snow Fun

We had a really big snowfall this week!

 The kids could hardly wait to get outside and play in it.

 Amber came over with her and Spencer's kids and they had fun sledding on our hill.  Wesley and Colton had a blast!

 Bensen fell off a chair at Grandma Lulu's. It looked really bad for a couple of days. 

 Josh Woodruff gave us some Arnicare to put on it and it looked much better a couple days later.

 On Christmas Eve morning we went sledding up in the retention pond in Silverleaf. 

 It's a perfect size hill for our kids.

 Earlier this week we went sledding at Romer Park by Emily and Josh's house but it was much colder and the hill was so big the kids didn't last very long.

 Mike even got in on the fun.  There was a little jump at the bottom of the hill that everyone was trying to hit.

Now we are ready to party tonight! :)

December Fun

On December 15th Wesley lost his first tooth!

 It had been loose for a couple of weeks. On this particular day he was having a hard time eating lunch, because the tooth kept getting in the way, so he just pulled it out.

It was pretty exciting!

 On December 19th the kids finally talked me into doing the gingerbread house.

 Mike is actually the one that bought it for them.  It's not my favorite thing to do, but the kids loved it! Bensen especially liked the candy.

Later that night we had our Bailey Christmas party at the church.

We had good soup and salads and yummy desserts, and played lots of fun games.

 Candy wrap, plate on head, pin the nose on the reindeer, make the best antlers and thunder.

 There was even a craft, we made Popsicle stick snowmen ornaments.

 It's always pretty crazy when we all get together.

 But we always have a lot of fun.

I love my big crazy family. I love that we are all pretty close and live by each other so we get to have fun get togethers often. We sure are blessed.