Trampoline Upgrade

The kids got a new trampoline for Christmas and Hannah (and Hunter) were given the 8'ft trampoline. It looks so tiny compared to the new one, which takes up a quarter of the yard, Chris says. We haven't had much time at home with it put up, but so far so good! There's more room to run and pretty high bounces still. Chris will be able to join in with us too!

Christmas Part 2

We enjoyed a Christmas celebration with my side of the family when we returned from PA. Our kids are definitely blessed by family members whose love language is giving gifts! 

Hunter is growing so fast! Here he is being a wiggle worm!

Hannah was being quite a ham at Christmas dinner (but not eating any!). Here she is singing "I'm a Little Teapot."

Trying to get all the kids to look at the camera and smile continues to prove to be challenging!

Hugs!!

My favorite out-take:

PA Christmas

We arrived in PA just in time to play in the snow a bit before it got too dark. That was the only snow we saw all week though! The temps were in the mid 50s the rest of the week!

Willow had a lingering cough and was diagnosed with walking pneumonia the day before we left. The snow was just too hard to resist though! 

We had a great week playing with Gramps and Gramma and seeing family. You know the kids are on Cloud 9 when there are only rare meltdowns!

Owen's roof design on the left, Willow's on the right:

We came across this flashback video of Owen saying his name, which made us do this update video, which didn't work out like I'd expected. 

The basement is always a favorite place for the kids to go while we're at Gramps and Grammas. Here's their basement dance party in the dark. 

We enjoyed meeting the Shannon family at Chuck E. Cheese again. Why do I always fail to get pictures of everyone together??? Owen and Willow both enjoyed the basketball game. Here's Owen in action.

Can you spy the kids' names in two of the snowflakes?

Outside without coats in PA in December???

Owen loves throwing the ball for Dakota!

Willow did a great job with her this year too!

Christmas Eve dinner with family:

Looks like Uncle Jan is looking for an ally. Here they are scheming together.

One of the kids' favorite things about Christmas in PA is the wrapping paper fight after the gifts have been opened. Here's some action from this year. 

Checking out where Santa is on Chris' app before heading to bed:

Christmas morning!

Round Two of gift opening (and wrapping paper throwing) with more family:

So many Lego sets!!