Wrapping up 2021 with the last two week and Christmas. We had a wonderful Christmas holiday and LOVED having everyone home! What a blessing! Take a look at the last part of our December....
Back home from the wedding...enjoying some games---Spot it! Love having Mr and Mrs A and Miss E home!
Enjoying a bonfire one evening.
We had some crazy warm and nice weather and enjoyed playing frisbee golf.
Love seeing my kids play duets together!
Happy birthday Mrs A!!! So fun to have her home for her birthday! She wanted a lemon poppy seed bundt cake for her birthday.
My December cake--lemon gingerbread with mascarpone frosting and it was soooo good!
Getting in our gingerbread cookie making tradition.
Walking around to see the lights downtown with Miss E home.
Ben making aebelskivers for Breakfast for Christmas Eve morning with EVERYONE home! Yeah!
Christmas Eve walk with our WHOLE family!!! So grateful for that!
Our house with the outside light that Mr J and Ben did a great job on!
Love seeing and hearing Mr J and Mr JC play the piano. So good!
Our Christmas Eve Nativity story ended up being a puppet show that the kids did. So fun!
Loved listening to Mr JC play the piano Christmas Eve. He is an amazing pianist!!!
Our tradition of new PJ's for Christmas Eve
Lots of fun!
Hello Christmas Morning! Santa found us!
Playing one of our new games
Love this Santa hat Mr J got! Go cougs!
Christmas lunch at my mom's, and for Christmas she made us a quilt from her dad's (my grandpa's) shirts. He passed away about 7 years ago. Love this!
Loving the new Christmas puzzles we got. Mr JC had Miss E for sibling gifts and he made her a puzzle out of a picture of her from our vacation to CO this summer. So fun!
The kids with our amazing neighbors who are kind of their adopted grandparents. Sure love them!
On Monday after Christmas our friends invited is over for a tennis tournament. So fun!
Last night with everyone home. Sure LOVED having everyone here for Christmas!
The married couples had to head back home, but we got Miss E with us a few more days. Had a day of really nice weather and we enjoyed playing crochet.
Went to see the new Spider man movie with these two. Good stuff!
Happy 26th anniversary to us! Ben got me these pretty flowers. Sure love that guy!
Miss E and Mr J doing a "Bob Ross" painting activity after Christmas.
Loved hanging out with these two and playing pool one day and exploring a fun resort nearby.
New Year's Eve we went up to the city and went to the Temple together. Great way to end the year!
We visited the Giving Machines which are vending machines where you donate to different causes. We donated some chickens, winter clothing, a tent, blankets and menstrual kids. So awesome!!!
At Crown Center in KC. We have this same picture of Mr J at the same train when he was 5. Fun memories!
Ben, Mr J and Miss E at the amazing Union Station.
Loving the trees up the shopping center.
Sure love this guy!
And we enjoyed some amazing KC BBQ to help us celebrate the end of a good, but crazy year!!!
Thanks for visiting! Hope you had a blessed Christmas holiday and Happy New Year!
Love seeing all your photos. I can't believe you've been married for 26 years. Wow. That sure makes me feel old!!
ReplyDeleteSo much goodness in these past 2 weeks! Glad to see your whole family back together and all the fun things your got to do. Happy New Year!
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