New Years Weekend

For New Years weekend we were invited up to Bear Lake with some friends to enjoy a nice relaxing weekend away to rest, watch movies, sled, eat, play games, and eat some more! We brought in the new year in New Yorkers time! Sent some to bed then stayed up playing cards until midnight! Kaden was lucky to be able to be an adult this year:)

This was before the tube popped!

Talking real estate....

(wishful thinking)

Kaden loves the bubbly!

Bringing in the New Year!

We LOVE Grandma's and Grandpa's

Grandma and Grandpa Mills came over on Christmas to give us our gifts. My mom made Allie an adorable hat and a matching hat and scarf for her American Girl Dolls along with some cute clothes. Kaden got an amazingly big K'nex Rocket. (You will see from the pictures)

See what I mean?

Jaren and I were not left out of all the gift opening.

(We just didn't get any pictures)

Grandma Joan and Grandpa Jay came over on Christmas Eve morning and gave us their gifts!
The kids loved their gifts. Allie had been wanting a ladybug pillow pet and some Heeleys for a long time. Everytime we went to Walmart we would walk by she would beg for me for one.

Allie helping dad open his presents:)

Christmas Morning

The kids were up bright and early at 6AM to see if Santa had come!

Opening the SNUGGIES!

Allie's favorite gift her American Girl Itty Bitty Twins!

More LEGOS!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve this year we stayed home all by ourselves. It's not that often that that happens. We decided to have a nice ham dinner where everyone picked an item to go on the menu with Kaden's Green Apple Snicker Salad and Allie's Chocolate Fondue for dessert we had a great dinner! We played games, watched the Muppet Christmas Carol (mom's idea, and nobody was excited until they watched it and everyone enjoyed it:), played the Wii, read the Christmas Story, and set out cookies for Santa. It was a lot of fun to start our own little Christmas Eve traditions! Serious poker faces playing Sequence

Preparing the dinner

Who doesn't love Chocolate Fondue???

Strawberries, bananas, angel food cake, and pretzels.

MMM MMM

Kaden celebrating his good bowl?

Or just doing one of his regular crazy dance moves.

(Yes he has many)

Cookies for Santa!

And the kids enjoying their rice bags they just opened!