Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy New Year!

We have had the most wonderful Christmas break.  Here are a few more pictures of how we spent the last couple days!

Had a blast at SkyZone.  Loved watching Kael help protect Kase on the dodgeball court.

Had dinner out with my dear friends and even ran into a high school friend while we were out! Had a lovely time but we were very much missing one of our good friends who was home sick.

Meanwhile, Kent and the kids had a farewell dinner out for Kelsey with all of the family.

New Year's Eve was a blast.  We decided to spend the whole day and evening just hanging out.  The day started with the kids popping a balloon to find a piece of paper inside that said, "Go out for breakfast".  We continued the fun all day with the balloon popping to find fun things written inside!

Later in the day, Kent built this amazing Nerf gun storage! The boys were so happy! Just look at those smiles!

A big highlight of the day was when we played Cupcake Wars.  Have you seen the show? Kylee just loves it and she got some fun cupcake decorating things in a gift exchange over the holidays.  So on New Year's Eve, we went all out and did a full Cupcake War challenge.  Kylee made several different versions of cupcakes, while Kael was Master of Ceremonies.  Kase was Kylee's kitchen helper.  You guys, it was so hilariously awesome.  Kael was calling out, "Bakers, ten more minutes!" while Kase was scurrying around adding chocolate chips to everything.  Kylee turned out some pretty impressive cupcakes to the judges (Kael, Kent, who was acting as Florian if you've seen the show you would have totally appreciated Kent's French accent during the judging, and Kase also judged even though he helped bake.) It was such an awesome memory. 

My little storm trooper.

Kase made it until 8:00 on New Year's.  The rest of us didn't make it until midnight either, but had a great evening watching movies and playing games. I'm just so very thankful for our time together.

New Year's Day was our Christmas celebration at my grandparents' house in Sheffield.  It was great to see the family and the kids had a great time together. Love getting to see all the extended family and always leave saying, "we should get together more often!"

Look! All of the kids (mostly) smiling for the camera! 

These three musketeers are absolutely hilarious. Oh, boys.

Had some (well, at least one) tired kid on the way home.

Later that evening we had a family game night with some of our good friends.  It had been far too long since we'd gotten to hang out! We had a fun night beating the boys in Pictionary!

We're all feeling a little sad that today is the last day of break.  Hoping to spend the day getting organized for the week AND cheering the Hawks onto a victory!

While it's been an awesome couple of weeks, we're definitely needing to get back on schedule as far as regular bedtimes and eating a little bit healthier.  Thankful for all of our blessings in 2016 and here's to a happy, healthy 2017!