Weekend Wrap-Up

We have had such a wonderful Christmas weekend! Here are all the pictures.

My photos don't do it justice but we did try to see the Bethlehem Star last week! So cool

 

The kids were excited to be done with school on Tuesday and Kylee had fun helping organize gifts under the tree.  All the ones toward the left were from her to all of us.  She is so thoughtful and had so many gifts for us!

Kylee and her friend were excited to see snow and we were all excited that we were going to have at least a little bit of a white Christmas. I guess you can't really see the snow in the photo but it was there!

Christmas Eve is always our own family day.  Kent doesn't go to work and we spend the whole day together.  Kase was up early and excited!

He and Kent had a little time for early morning hot tubbing before everyone else got up.

Kase was sad to say good-bye to our elf and Prancer. 

Finally everyone was awake!

We made breakfast pizza and cinnamon rolls.

Then the kids wanted to start by giving their gifts to each other. Kase found a comfy spot under out puzzle table.

He was super excited about his xBox gift card from Kael.  All the kids got great gifts for each other. 

The kids were thrilled to give their gifts to us too.  Kent loved his American flag mug!

And we were so wowed by Kylee's paintings! She has such talent and she spent so much time working on these!

We had lunch at Leaning Tower and were blown away when we got our bill and saw that it had been covered! There was a sweet card just saying they hoped we would pay it forward in the community.  The kids had fun brainstorming ideas of how they would pay it forward.

We got home and finished opening gifts.  

Some highlights were a giant bean bag, a Nintendo Switch and a VR headset. But the best part of all was just spending the day together. 

The day flew by! We went to Christmas Eve church and it felt so good to be back. Seeing the kids faces lit up by candlelight was just my favorite part of the whole day.

We got home and made spaghetti for our candlelight dinner.

Then, fondue!

We watched Home Alone 4 then got everyone tucked in! Kylee was so sweet to have a sleepover with Kase so he would have no trouble getting right to sleep!

Kase woke up early and immediately woke up Kylee saying, "It's Christmas!!!" Kylee had gotten a text from Kael in the middle of the night saying, "If I'm not up by 6:45 and you guys are, please wake me up." So we spent some time looking at old photo books while we waited to wake Kael. 

The kids raced downstairs to see their gifts!

Everyone was so sweet and thankful and happy about all their gifts. They are just at such fun ages.

My parents stopped by quickly to see the kids' gifts then we spent a little time just hanging out letting the kids play with their new things then we headed to Keith and Cindy's.

We had brunch then played a few Minute to Win It games! 

Silly girls. 

The kids all got some pretty great gifts!

And the kids are so good with Kellen and Krue.  We all loved spending time with the whole fam.

The aunts and uncles spoiled them with some pretty great gifts too!

We came home happy, tired, and thankful.  Kylee kept saying, "I'm seriously the luckiest girl ever."

The next day we spent organizing/taking down the tree/cleaning and playing with all our new things! We had a nice family night playing a bunch of our new games. 

Sunday we had a lazy morning at home then Keith and Cindy stopped by to see all the kids' Santa presents.  We spent the rest of the day playing our new games and just hanging out.  Kase had a friend's birthday party. It looks like they had a great time! Kent and I enjoyed some time with the big kids and sat in the hot tub, played VR and watched a movie that Kase wouldn't have enjoyed as much.

Feeling super thankful and happy for a great holiday weekend!