The rest of Christmas Break

I definitely got some much needed down time during the break (in between the holiday crazy) and I had so much fun just being at home with my babies and seeing my family.

The animals love the kids and loved having them home all day

The kids took a ski lesson

And then we had a family ski day with TJ and my brother

Four people I love so so much

He loves his Snowbird sweatshirt

We went to Star Wars (and all actually sat through the movie and liked it)

We relaxed

And took funny pictures

We went to the trampoline place with the Helbling ladies

We had friends over

Bodie LOVES to cuddle Beamer

Trying out the new x-mas gift

Bodie had to try too

Christmas Eve/Day

There is nothing I love more than traditions...they make you feel the spirit of a holiday and bring great feelings of memories from the past. As always, we went to Christmas Eve Mass and then over to Yai Yai and Papou's for Christmas eve dinner. We set out our milk/cookies/carrots and cheese (for Santa Mouse) and headed to bed with excitement beaming. On Christmas morning, my family came over to open gifts and have Christmas breakfast. It was a nice slow morning filled with warm cups of coffee, kids smiling and laughing and lots of family time. Although Todd had to go to work, we did get the morning with him and then the kids and I went to my parent's for the rest of the day and dinner. We are incredibly grateful for all we have been blessed with this year...good things and challenges and this Christmas the focus for us was definitely on family and Christ. We hope all our family and friends had a magical holiday as well!

We went to our neighbors Christmas Eve open house before church

Love these two and love that they love church

Presents from Yai Yai

Merry Christmas Eve

Setting out the goodies

Santa made a stop here

Some excited folks on Christmas morning

Kayla and Bodie gave us gifts they had made first...so sweet

Stocking time

Sadie was SUPER happy about her bone

Testing out the new plasma car

The kids got TJ a custom made corn hole set

Isabella got the cutest new pjs

All the girls got a new vest

Our two artists hard a work

Family time...

We had an awesome couple days as a family for Christmas break while Todd was off...

We found a great sledding park super close to our house

Kayla flew down the hill on the saucer

The girls

TJ of course found a jump

Then we had a snowball fight...Bodie made a HUGE snowball

So did McKayla

We built a snowman in our front yard (Bodie named him Olaf)

We went out for a yummy dinner

Bubbles TP'd the bathroom

Beamer found a favorite new nap spot in my laundry basket

Our neighbors dropped off this yummy cinnamon twist

On Bubbles last day she reminded us of the true reason for Christmas