December 2021 Part 2, Christmas and New Year's Eve

Christmas eve, the kids opened 1 present, which happened to be 3 presents from Grandma Jack. 

The kittens were recovering from being fixed and Lilian took it upon her self to be their nurse. 

Wrestling with uncle Andrew. 

I made a Yule Log... my first ever and it was delicious.  

We had Christmas Eve dinner at Grandma Workman's and Andrew and Grandma rocked out during song time. 

Getting ready for bed. These kids are still young enough that they can actually fall asleep on Christmas Eve, it was great.

Merry Christmas! They started the day with their new play couch!

Getting ready to open presents. 

Then Christmas exploded!

Merry Christmas. 

Playtime

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The kids got each other wooden toys from Redd's, Finn and I are building his racecar before he painted it. 

The girls got dragons from Amanda (cousin gifts, but she couldn't remember who had who.) 

We went riding with Grandma and Andrew. 

It was a little muddy. 

Oh, snuggles. 

They found all the puddles during hiking time. 

On Sunday, Lilian and Andrew had a practice photo shoot during breakfast. 

After church photos.  It was SO cold and windy. 

After changing we went to take more pictures at the 4th reservoir. 

Finn found a dead crawfish. 

We spent New Year's Eve with Mallory and Rob Lyman.  They stayed the night so that we could stay up late while the kids slept. Melissa is reading everyone a New Year's storybook. 

We played an escape room in a box game the Lyman's brought, then several others, then talked, then regretted staying up so late.  It was a fun night!.