Christmas Vacation

We had a wonderful Christmas vacation. The kids have been off since the 22nd and Kyle was home pretty much the whole time too. It was such a great time together. We stayed at our home for Christmas eve and Christmas morning. We watched the polar express on Christmas eve which has become a tradition, had hot chocolate and the kids were very excited to get to bed for Christmas morning. They got up on Christmas morning came into our room to see if they could go check to see if there were presents out. We opened all of the gifts, had cinnamon rolls and played with everything for a while. Christmas afternoon we traveled back to our home towns to visit the grandparents and cousins. We had a blast spending the next few days with family. There was amazing food, presents, sledding, games, movies, snowball fights, pranks, and late night chats until 2:00 in the morning. The kids LOVE the time they get to spend with their cousins. Mason had made a gift at school brought it home wrapped and told me it was for the cousins, so the picture with him holding up the paper is the gift he made for them. It was his handprints made into rudolf, it was super cute and I wish it would have been for me and not the cousins :) One of the highlights was getting to skype with my brother Phil in afganistan while we were all home. It was nice for him to be apart of Christmas! We traveled back home on Thursday, picked up the dogs and spent the rest of the weekend relaxing and enjoying some time with each other. New Years eve we played games and had snacks which was a lot of fun. The time always goes so fast but it was a wonderful Christmas vacation.