Christmas

It dawned on me today that it has been months since I have blogged anything.  So I pulled it up and sure enough, my last entry was Kate's birthday back in November.  So I am way behind.  But I'll do my best to get caught up.  I'll start with Christmas.  

First we had to get in to the holiday spirit with:

a visit with Santa,

decorating gingerbread men,

trimming the tree

and checking out all of the lights.  This is the insane Christmas house in a nearby neighborhood.  The photo doesn't do it justice.  Every inch of the house and yard is covered in lights!

Christmas morning was spent at our house.  The kids woke up to discover that Santa had in fact come to our house.  He brought Jack the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Lair that he had asked for.  Kate had asked for a new microphone so Santa brought her a karaoke machine!

After opening the rest of the gifts, the family room was a bit of a mess.

Later that afternoon, we headed over to Grandma Cecile and Poppa Dave's house.  We were joined by Dave's Aunt Shelley & Uncle Fara from California as well as his Aunt Sandy and Cousins Loren & Andre from Oregon  It was fun to have so much family in town.  

Here are the kids with their Uncle Jeff

I didn't get too many pictures because we were so busy opening gifts and eating delicious food (and half of my photos didn't turn out).  But here are a few:

 A few days later, we flew to Colorado for a belated Christmas with my family.  When we arrived, the kids saw that Santa had also made a visit to their house!

Kate with her new cookbook

Poppa Mark

Uncle Josh & Kate

Grandma Linda

Jack and his new minion

Yes, Jack got a Bronco jersey.  We are from Denver after all.  But no, Dave did not let him wear it during the Super Bowl.  Only Seahawks attire was allowed in our house that day!

We had a fabulous 3 Christmases.  They were so great, it took me nearly two months to write about them!