Sleep Over

The Stoy girls both stayed with Maddie. Evelyn was so mad when we invited Olivia over, so she came too. The are not many 2 year olds that would stay somewhere. We all loved having her, they were really cute, as you can see.

Dylan had his cousin Dawson stay, he is Dylan's hero and best friend. They are both such good boys.

Macy and her friend Macy stay. Her daddy works with Michael. The girls are double trouble, but look how cute they are.

The kids each had a friend spend the night as their last fun evening before we headed back to school. There was seven kids all together. It was really fun to watch them. The house looked like a tornado hit, but they all had fun. We did not even have any fights.

Happy New Years

We stayed at home on New Years Eve and just hung out with our kiddos. They had fun eating junk and playing games. We have a new favorite game, Pictureka. It was actually more fun than I thought that it would be. Mom brought her kitten over for the kids to play with. His name is Paco, and I bet he was exhausted when he got home. The kids chased him the entire night.

Tobogganing

The dads are taking the sleds up the steps. They were troopers. We ended up driving Mike's truck after the first run.

The whole crew. Dylan, Hayden, Joel, Gavin, Macy, Whittney, Cadenence, Avery, Reece Weber, and Maddie.

Cadence, Whittney and Avery, they were watching while we were getting our sled.

The sled way off in the distance is my family. My camera stinks.

The Pfefferkorn's, minus Miss Aleigha, she stayed with her grandpa and grandma.

The day after Christmas we all headed to my favorite place ever, Pokagan State Park to do some tobogganing. We met the Gardeners, Pffefferkorns and the Knoxs. The kids had a blast, so did I actually. We are lucky to have such great friends and it was so pretty out. It was snowing really hard, which felt pretty terrible on our faces as we were going down on the slide but was so beautiful.

Christmas Morning

Mom and dad, they had to get here really early so the kids would not beat them and have everything opened.

Dylan got a bow and arrow. He wants to be like his daddy.

Maddie got her guitar. She wants to take lessons. I love this picture. She is so excited.

Having breakfast.

I forgot to get a good picture of the kids upstairs when they first woke up. So this was an after thought.

Dylan did a good job pretending to like his clothes.

Macy is opening her first gift from Santa. She was very matter of fact and did not get really excited.

Maddie was pretty pumped.

The tree before the kids attacked it.

The kids woke up Christmas morning and were very excited. The tree looked terrific and they could not wait to rip open all of their gifts. Grandpa and Grandma always come over Christmas morning and they put all of their gifts in the basement for our family. First the kids opened their gifts from Santa and then we had a huge breakfast. Around lunch time we moved on the the basement and did their gifts that were under the tree down there. For the first time we did not have to leave the house on Christmas at all. It was different, the kids and Mike loved it, but I was a little sad. I love tradition, and it was weird doing things differently.

Here comes Santa Clause

Yummy, they looked so good the kids had to try them out.

Feeding the reindeer. Mike when out and made foot prints for Santa and the reindeer, but it rained that night and washed away all of his hard work.

When we got home Christmas Eve we had lots of preperation to do so we would be ready when Santa got here. We had to feed the reindeer and make a quick batch of cookies. The kids had to try out a couple of cookies before bed of course.

Christmas Eve

It is tradition to go to Great Grandma and Grandpa Oberlin's on Christmas Eve. Everyone gets to where their pajamas so we all love it.
Maddie was posing with Nana and Papa.

Macy loves having her pictures taken. I have about 7 of them like this.

Kris and Neal with all of the grandkids. We always forget to take some like this.

The great grandkids with Grandpa and Grandma.

Dylan Christmas Program

Dylan, the super handsome guy in the center, did a terrific job preforming at his program. They did some popular Christmas songs and then we got to go back to the room for a little party. He was pretty excited.