We had a wonderful holiday season, that of course went by way too fast. for thanksgiving, we traveled over to idaho falls wednesday afternoon to see the rucks family. that night they had a big blizzard roll through so on thanksgiving morning, the kids all bundled up and went out to play in it. on one of the days we left all the grandkids at home with grandma and grandpa and the adults went to see the last hunger games. it was fun to get away for a few hours.
for christmas, we decided to stay home. i was a little sad to not be with any family, but also a little relieved to not have to pack up christmas.
of course we went and saw our favorite santa, and got ourselves and nice crying picture!
we decorated a gingerbread train.
christmas eve was also parker's 5th birthday! crazy right? Jared took the day off and we had one VERY fun christmas eve/birthday.
parker chose to have pizza for his birthday lunch, so we headed to pizza pie cafe. we came home to open birthday presents, and then headed out into the back yard to play in the fresh snow that had just fallen that morning.
jared built a little snow hill for the kids to sled down.
they could also slide down on their backs and stomachs.
christmas eve night we went over to our friends the mendenhall's for dinner and birthday cake.
pretty proud of my spiderman skills.
santa also stopped by for a surprise visit and parker was start struck! he was so excited to see him it was cute.
looks like the kids were good this year and santa accidentally left his whole sleigh here. christmas morning was a bit chaotic between parker and brooklynn ripping through presents, and jackson needing attention as well, so i didnt get any pictures of the actual event :(
we got to skype with our favorite sister missionary for the last time! she comes home in 7 weeks!!!!
and parker got a bigger bike, but looks like we will have to try riding it again once the weather turns warmer. it was a great christmas!
