Christmas Eve and Morning

Monday, December 24, 2018

Donna came for Christmas Eve. The kids were teaching her to dab and other annoying things, while Dave and I finished getting dinner ready. He made steak.

After dinner the kids looked for the Christmas pickle. Seth found it and got to open the first gift and play Santa, passing out gifts to everyone.

Seth got Legos for grownups, Red Sox gear, PF Flyers, a watch, and posters.

Dave got a Ring doorbell, a machete, church shirts, a cover for his smoker, and a meat thermometer. 

Cam got lots of clothes and albums.

Donna got calendars, a blueray player, an air mattress, a movie, a book, and a journal.

Lex got an iphone watch and lots of shoes and clothes.

I got an instapot, sweaters, bodyspray, sheets, and lunchbags.

After opening presents, we played games and watched a movie before heading to bed.

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Santa came! I was very surprised to get Bose wireless headphones.

Lex got new Nikes. 

Cam got 100 Mombucks to use to buy a new phone. 

And Seth got a long board. 

We went to Ryan's for Wafflemania and the family Christmas exchange. We facetimed Lee's family so we could see them open their gifts too.

Lex got a cute jacket and hat. Cam got another album, and Seth got a Buckingham Palace lego set. The adults tried to focus more on giving experiences to each other. Dave got going to a bar to watch a soccer game with Ryan and his fan club. I got a cute wall hanging with important family dates and Chris took me to a very yummy lunch at Served.

Cousin Time

Friday, December 21, 2018

Jacquelynn and her kids came into town. The girls stayed at our house and Jack stayed at Ryan's house with the boys. They came into town on Thursday and we went to Sunset Park to feed the ducks and play at the petrified wood playground. Then we got pizza and watched Another Cinderella Story.  On Friday, Jack took Anna to do baptisms for the dead for the first time. Seth went along and Dave met them up there. That night Jack, Jo, and I went to dinner.

Saturday, December 22, 2018

Saturday morning we went to Exploration Park to hike the hill up to the Vegas view.. The kids did pretty well hiking. Then we ate a picnic and the kids played for a bit.

We took the older kids to the New York, New York to go on the roller coaster. Anna is a pretty big roller coaster fan and was happy to get to do something with just the older kids. 

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Jack's family took off Sunday morning, but we needed more cousin time so we took Bo and Sarah to look at Christmas lights. She loves the music and danced away to the music.

Ho! Ho! Ho!

We found this gem near our house. It was pretty bad. 

December Happenings

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Dave took the Young Men to the temple to do baptism for the dead. I tagged along and did a few initiatories.

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

We made it to Scout's dance recital. She is 3 years old, which means she was old enough for Ms. Lori's class. She did the tap dance to "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". I still know all the moves from when I was 3.

Thursday December 6, 2018

Lex moved into an apartment with her friend Emma and Emma's sister and brother-in-law. She had spent the past year living in Jacquelynn and the Upchurches' basements. 

    

Friday, December 7, 2018

Cam is is the Patriot Pals club. They set up activities for the Special Ed kids at school. They got to take the kids bowling at the South Point. Cam enjoyed the outing, especially because it was during school.

Saturday, December 8, 2018

Tristan got a haircut and got it lightened. Lex sent these pictures to show me how it turned out.

Sunday, December 16, 2018

We had a hard time getting the kids to work on the gingerbread house. They complained the whole time until they came up with the idea to make claws on the big gingerbread man and make it look like he massacred all the little gingerbread men.

Lex and Tristan made a Fed Ex house. Of course.

  

Ugly Sweater Party

Saturday, December 15, 2018

Bill Witt won last year's Ugly Sweater contest, so he was set to host the party this year. I helped out with the invites. I brought Italian Nachos because we used to go to an Italian restaurant that served them with the Goons and Thatchers, but it went out of business. I found a copycat recipe.

We added a new game to the mix - Box of Lies, based on the game on Jimmy Fallon's show. The Goons made this board that you can only see the person's face through, everyone brought a box with something weird they made in it, you opened the box and either lied or didn't about what it was, and the other person guessed whether they were lying or not.

People made pretty weird stuff, but Kim's wedding cake topper with Twilight pictures on it was my favorite.

We took some pictures in the photo booth. It was a fun night.

Tree Triming

Saturday, December 8, 2018

We went to Home Depot to get a tree. There wasn't much to choose from so we paid way too much for way too small of a tree. We also spent the night going to McDonalds, where we ordered Whoppers from Burger King on their app, making the burgers only 1 cent, when we got back to Burger King.

Thursday, December 13, 2018

It took us until the next Thursday to actually decorate the tree. We were busy and the kids are no fun this year so it was a struggle.

It was Cam's turn to put up the star but Seth needed to trim some of the top branches first.

The tree was a little lame this year and so Dave went to get a fake one the day after Christmas.