John and I both were able to get the entire week in between Christmas and New Year's off from work. It was heavenly and a much needed break. We took down our cute little apartment sized tree on the 23rd:
and headed out on the 24th down to Glide, OR to John's parents (or Grandpa and Grandma's house as we know it now). We were sad not to be able to go all the way to CA this year to be with my family, but lucky because Nick and Christi (John's older brother and wife) and their girls decided to come out to Glide for Christmas and the break!! It was a BLAST!! It had been way way too long since we have seen them and their cute little girls! Highlights from the week:
**Christmas morning!! I think we had been up and had all the presents unwrapped by 7:15 am. That's what happens when you have 4 kids ages 4 and under in the same house!
**A girls trip into town, WITHOUT KIDS, for Pedicures and to get our makeup done!
**Playing basketball and getting to watch Aunt Heather (john's younger sister) play on the Varsity High School basketball team as a freshman!
**Staying up late watching movies, playing games and sitting in the hot tub
**Having it SNOW!! And driving up to play in even more snow!
**Taking the kids swimming with Grandma Sue!
**LOTS and LOTS of good food!!
**Being together with everyone and getting to do lots of relaxing!
My only complaint is that it went by way too fast. We ended up staying longer than we had originally intended just because their was so much to do and time flew by too fast! We had a great time!
The boys scored in the pj department! Grandma Sue and Heather picked out the cutest pj's for them that were Toy Story inspired, and then my mom made them pj bottoms- Cars ones for Jackson and mickey mouse for Baron. The looked so cute in all of them... I made them change half way through the morning!
The much anticipated Iron Man
