Christmas Recap

We had a great christmas with both families. This was the first year we stayed in Tulsa since we've been married. Seth's aunt Donna is staying with Seth's parents right now. Unfortunately, Donna and Seth's mom were both sick on Christmas Eve, so we stopped in for a short visit, but let them rest up. We had a great Christmas Eve with Justin and April and the kids. We made chocolate dipped marshmallows with the kids. Then the kids watched "Elf" and the adults played Spades. We hadn't played cards in so long, it was so much fun to play and laugh.


Christmas morning was so much fun. We had to wake the kids up since it was Sunday and we wanted to open presents before going to church. Landon was so excited to open his stocking and presents. It was so much fun to see his joy :) Olivia had fun opening the presents, but didn't really get what was going on. Her favorite presents were her Tea Pot, dolly, musical book and bear. Landon's favorite gifts were his stand up sand box, shark car toy, lego Thomas and all the little legos :) I got a coupon from Build-A-Bear for a free bear and Seth and I decided to go as a family to pick out a bear "from Samuel" for the kids. I think this is going to be our new Christmas tradition. Landon named the bear, "Cucumber" :)


We had cinnamon rolls and just overall had a nice morning together. After church, we went over to Seth's parents since they were feeling a little better. We watched the Thunder game and had a yummy dinner together. It was very relaxing and just nice to be together.

The next weekend, all of Seth's family came into town. We had so much fun laughing and spending time together. Seth's parents went crazy for Christmas, and I got a guitar! I'm super excited about learning to play. The kids love to come and help me strum while I learn. We had some nice big boxes from all the loot so the kids decorated them and had a great time playing house in them.






We also celebrated Camryn's 8th birthday with a pinata and a cake that she decorated with melted chocolate and Andes mint chips. It was such a sweet time.


This last weekend, we made it up to Iowa for our last celebrations. We traveled through the night getting in at 4am on Friday. This worked out really well with the kids. Landon slept from 9pm-8am and Olivia was up for a couple hours on the trip and woke up again when we got there, but overall did great. On Saturday we had almost the entire family together, minus two husbands. We ordered pizza and just had a nice day together. We watched some old home movies which had us all laughing and some blushing :) We had such a wonderful childhood, it was so fun to look back and remember.


I loved holding my precious two month old niece. She was really smiling and almost laughing, it was hard to leave her!


Sad to see things come to an end, but sweet memories were made. It's a new year now and I'm excited to see what the Lord has for us this 2012.