We decided to drive home on Sunday – on New Years day. I had been sick and we decided to get home before Ben or whoever else kicked in. And the weather was also crazy so we fought the snow and hoped that Sunday would be easier to get home than Monday. And we met up with Jaydn in Nevada for 5 minutes 🙂
Saturday is a special day… it’s the last day of the year. WE PLAYED SO MANY GAMES and we prepared for the evening festivities.
I made it most of the day but then I crashed. The stomach ache kicked in and I went to bed before dinner. I never threw up but I couldn’t enjoy being up. EVERYONE ELSE seemed to have a fun NEW YEARS!!
The barfs caught up to us. Everyone had been taking there turn with the one day bug… Millie and Ray and Rose 🙁 I was up every 20 minutes helping someone throw up and clean up. . . . But they felt fine in the morning and we carried on! Shopping, lunch, movie and games.
Playing Ball at the church! And opening gifts from MOM 🙂
Late Night Puzzles and early morning shenanigans… and GIFT EXCHANGE! We didn’t get to see Kevin and Liz for very long but everything else was great!
EVERYONE HANGING OUT AT MOMS – and Tbell and Tracie’s 🙂
Everyone decided to RISK it and go to moms! Eggers and Shae and Braden, Michael, Ryan, Us, Joel, Tracie, Brady, Shannon, Sean and Kelsey – waiting for Kevin and Josh!
We drove to Sacramento on the 26th! We thought we were heading to moms but they had been sick the days before and Shannon and Kelsey were still getting over it. So we went straight to Ryan and Renae’s house 🙂
And we got to meet sweet baby Maeve Mata! It was fun to see their new place and spend some time with Ryans family!
Christmas was on Sunday! Ben gave the best Christmas Talk and the Music was amazing. It was so nice to worship Christ on Christmas! …balance board, hover board, scooter, bike, lego, and new shoes. Cameras, watches, ear buds, and so much more! We played and relaxed and cooked and packed… We had Grandma and Grandpa and Emily over for Christmas dinner!
And then we had to decide what to do about the washing machine that stopped working on Christmas Eve 🙁 …. We googled it: Dirty Filter…. So we pulled it apart and fixed it!! Nate Moller was the youtube video that we watched!
Christmas was amazing!
We went to Pete and Amanda’s house to eat and relax, play family feud and do the nativity!
The NATIVITY:
And then NEW CHRISTMAS PAJAMAS and putting treats out for Santa and off to bed:
