We had a wonderful Christmas and Christmas break this year! The magic of Christmas never ceases to amaze me with these sweet boys. I absolutely love seeing it all through their eyes and cherish these years when they are little and so excited about it all.
Open gym at Blue Valley Rec
Puppy love... Max loves this puppy outside of Trader Joe's
Delivering bookmarks to the bookmobile that all the kids made during the winter parties at school
Family dinner with Eckert's
Elfie... the boys still get so excited every morning in December about running down to find Elfie and do their advent calendars (chocolate ones and the one where they put an ornament on a little tree... it was the advent calendar we had when I was growing up from Aunt Lucy.)
Making and decorating Grandma Evelyn's famous Christmas cookies, an annual tradition we love
Christmas morning!
This picture is out of order, but this was Christmas Eve lunch at J Alexanders... Cole's idea and it was a good one
Christmas morning
Christmas morning snowman pancakes
Favorite gifts... Chip the Robot Puppy and x-box (both from Santa)
We drove to Topeka Christmas afternoon to spend time with GG, Poppy and the Roth Family.
The boys made snowman donuts with GG like they do every year
Cousins in their special shirts made by Alyssa
Back home playing with the awesome big boy basketball goal that GG and Poppy gave to the boys, they love it and love having full court basketball outside now
Sweet guy fell asleep in our bed
Family date over Christmas break to Union Station, rode the street car and had breakfast at a little diner in the River Market, such a fun morning!
Union Station
Streetcar
Biggest pancakes ever
First orthodontist appt for both boys
New Years Eve bowling with friends (Cooper, Emmet and Max)
New Year's Eve Fun!
After party at the Jennings with the Books too
The parents. This was the first year (EVER) for the boys and first year in a long time that Craig and I stayed up until midnight. We had such a fun evening!!
