Christmas and Beyond

We had such a nice Christmas break, I'm sad it's over.  Today Nick went back to work, and tomorrow the kids go back to school.  I suppose we can't live in our pajamas forever.  Now to rewind...here we are making our Christmas cookies:

 Our Christmas Eve was spent cleaning house, and we had plans to go to my parent's house, but those plans were changed when it snowed all the day long.  Instead, we had my brother's family, and Nick's brother over for tamales and games.  It was fun.

The kids were excited to go to bed so that Santa could come, and came he did. 

 We had Nick's family over that afternoon to open even more presents, and we enjoyed spending the evening with them.  The hit of the show was Uncle Nate's remote control helicopter.  Lainey was awestruck by it:

 Speaking of Uncle Nate, he's a good sport:

 The rest of our holidays were pretty lazy.  It was wonderful.  We did get out a few times, and did complete a few home projects, but mostly we hung out in our pajamas and just enjoyed being together.  We did make it down to my parent's house (after a whole week of snow!).  The kids enjoyed being pulled around on the sled with their cousins:

 And Everett and I took a spin on the four-wheeler:

 New Year's Eve we made last minute plans with Nick's brother and family for dinner and games.  We got kids to bed early (well, early-ish, it was still late to them), but Nick and I stayed up watching tv and actually were awake this time around to ring in the New Year.  We are such party animals.  On New Year's day, we finally got outside and made some footprints in our snow:

Nick and the girls made a snowman:

 And, a phone dump.  No surprises this time.  ;)