We were able to visit lots of family over Christmas and New Years. We had a great time and I took plenty of pictures so I thought I'd share some of the highlights.
Here the kids are on Christmas Eve acting out the nativity scene. Linsey was an angel, Hunter was Joseph, Emma was Mary, and cousin Oliva got to be the baby Jesus.
Uncle Zack thought it might be FUN to tape Hunter to the wall. It was.
Santa brought lots of great gifts, but I think most of the entertainment came from playing with all of the uncles.
Uncle Mike became a bull giving the kids the ride of their lives.
Emma decided that the dog, Annie was the perfect seat for her.
Thankfully, Annie didn't seem to mind.
We visited my family New Years Eve. After a giant nerf gun war, my brother broke out a nerf toy that would shoot discs into the air with a velcro type fabric that the nerf darts stick too. You can see in the picture that everyone young and old took on the challenge quite seriously.
If you didn't notice in the background of the prior picture, the girls were sitting in the middle of all the action, uninterested in the guns, but having a great time playing polly pockets.
No one was safe the entire 2 days we stayed. I think my parents will be finding nerf darts til next Christmas.
We all had fun sending off a homemade hot air balloon. It was built with straws, candles, and a trash bag.
You can see the outline of straws with the candles saudered by candle wax. To get ready for take off my brother is lighting them one by one..... oh the excitement!
Almost ready for takeoff.
going, going....
gone.
The last highlight was feeding an enormous amount of ducks and geese down by the Columbia River. I couldn't believe how tame they were.
Hunter would tear off a small piece of bread and with one hand he would hold the morsel out for the geese, then with the other hand he would hold the remainder of the bread high in the sky in hopes that one hungry goose wouldn't snatch the entire thing.
The holidays are fun, but it's nice to be home and back into a normal routine. Now I'm just trying to get caught up. Does that ever really happen??
Many would not put an exclamation mark after that, however we don't get much snow around here so a little bit brings a whole lot of excitement! School was even delayed an hour. The kids got their coats and hats on and set out to make a snowman. They had all sorts of fun running around and giggling. You'd think it was Christmas!
Speaking of Christmas, Emma got a princess nightgown for her Christmas pajamas and we haven't been able to get it off her since, well at least not without a fight. She wants to wear it day and night so it didn't surprise us one bit when she decided she was going to go and play in the snow wearing only her nightgown and hat.
She didn't last too long. Here is everyone making their "COLD" faces.
Of course dad had to end the fun with an all out snowball fight. They even attacked me as I was attempting to get some pictures. Tonight the snow has mostly melted, all except for our snowman. Tomorrow it will probably be gone. I think it's perfect!
