Wrapping Up The Year!

I can hardly believe another Christmas has come and gone. Time flies when you're rushing from one fun thing to another. We wore the kids out with all our activities. We started on Christmas Eve with Grandma and Grandpa C, Aunt Kacey, Uncle Eric, Nathan and Kayla coming over for Christmas brunch then we packed up the kids and headed to Matt's Uncle Dick's house to see that whole side of the family then we did Christmas morning at home with just us and then headed out to Grandma and Grandpa Z's for more fun with Aunt Anne, Aunt Jennifer, Uncle Chris and cousin Claire. Overall it was a great holiday and it was so fun to see McKenzie really understand what was going on.

Here's McKenzie intent on opening a present. Immediately after getting wrapping paper off each gift she would say 'Daddy, I want opie' (open)


Here's Ben sitting in a tiny chair that Aunt Gail and Uncle Dick gave to cousin Claire. For some reason Ben loved it and was very proud of himself for sitting in it.


The Christmas tree after Santa had come. Santa even took time to draw the kids a picture on their new easel! What a guy!


Ben's first experience with the wonder of Christmas - it's so much nicer to have a baby at the beginning of the year so they are able to really interact during their first Christmas.



Here's both kids tearing into the presents!


We are very blessed to be able to have a great Christmas with our friends and family and to have wonderful gifts under our tree. We worked hard this year with McKenzie to have her give to others. She had a great time giving away some toys we purchased because she got to get on a bus to donate the toys!

The tree and decorations are down and all the gifts have found homes within our home. Maybe next year I'll unpack the kids toys before Christmas and then put them in big Tupperware bins and wrap those under the tree! Save myself some of the mess on Christmas. I feel bad for the garbage man this week.