Christmas 2017

It's still hard to believe that Christmas is over and all of the decorations are stored away again.  Just last night Nora asked Alexa to play Jingle Bells, I think she is in denial too :)

Lots of fun things happened in preparation for Christmas.

A fun class party with slime making

And a fun game......shaking the ping pong balls out of the box (Evan and Nora played that multiple times)

We did lots of Christmas baking and cookie decorating

The many faces of Hannah

This was our second year for the Reindeer cake pops

And the grand finale was baking cookies for Santa

Santa brought gifts to our house on Christmas Eve morning, because we were leaving that day to go to Branson to spend Christmas with Scott's family.

Santa brought a bike for Hannah, a Foosball table for Evan and a doll kitchen for Nora.  Everybody was happy.

Christmas morning the kids opened their stockings and a few gifts from us.  I didn't take any pictures and only got one of Nora from aunt Amy.

She got a little pretend Barista set and a Starbucks apron.....she loves to play with it.  She asks me for my order every day now.

The kids got lots of cousin time and loved it.  They were always entertained (except for Evan who still asked to play with us all of the time and we had to remind him that he had a lot of cousins to chose from).  The temperatures were freezing, but the kids still went outside a lot to play football and basketball.  It was a wonderful family time and I took zero pictures all week.  I was able to get a few pictures from family members....

The day after Christmas we went to Snowflex mountain to try their tubing.  We had a blast.  Nora and Evan were old enough to go with an adult.  Neither of them loved it the first couple of times and then they finally realized it wasn't scary and loved it.  We went down that hill countless times and it was still fun even the very last time we went.  We had the entire family there, so that made it even more fun.

Hannah asked one of the guys to give her a little spin going down the hill and she spun the entire way down.  We watched her get out of the tube and she just fell over.  Then she did it all over again:)

Evan's favorite part was racing each other.

We played the 3rd annual Reindeer games one night and had so much fun.  Our kids thought the "poop the potato" game was the funniest.  Of course they did.  

I wore my new Christmas leggings for the occasion.

I had my game face on.

On our last day we all went to see "The Miracle of Christmas" at the Sight and Sound theater.  This was our Christmas gift from Scott's parents.  We all enjoyed the show (Nora and Evan were a little antsy, but overall did fine).

That wraps up Christmas 2017.