Merry Christmas!

Our ward's annual Reindeer run.
This was the first year Caleb actually ran it.

Good job buddy!
(We didn't get any pictures of the older two because we couldn't keep up with them)

Putting his name on the finishers board.

Santa came to visit!

Caleb deciding if he has to pose for a picture in order to get on Santa's nice list.

Carter just observed from afar and enjoyed some Christmas candy.

What a cute little reindeer.

Caleb and Jayden were very pleased when they
each won a prize at a Christmas party for playing bingo.

Waiting to light the tree at the Community Center.

Hooray!

Tractor rides.

And snow!
Actually it was too warm for snow, so we had bubbles!

Magical.

Time to decorate the house.
The kids get so excited for this.

Aww!  Cute boy!

Trimming the tree.

I can reach more than halfway up the tree now!

Dad still had star duty.

Caleb's homemade Santa beard.

We are so excited when cousins are in town.
Getting ready to head up for a fun family trip.

Cabin time!

There is always lots of crafts to do at the cabin.

Do you want to build a snowman?

Getting ready for the bigger hill.

One for the money...

Two for the show...

Three to get ready...

Kerplunk in the snow.

Lots of picture taking at the cabin.

These kiddos love Aunt T.

Balloons!

Pie face time!

Hilarious!

Who will win?  And who will whip?

This kid is nuts.

See?  It's not too cold for swimming!

We collected all the artwork in the windows.

Cousins!

As if the cabin wasn't enough fun,
Grammy took us all to The Rush for Christmas!

Mini golf

Bowling

Giant foam pit!

Look out below!

I'm coming too!

Go Daddy!

This was Caleb's absolute favorite activity.

Ahhhh!

Took these girls with us to run some "errands" at the mall.

They got surprise ear piercings.
Jayden's reaction was: "Whoa.  That actually didn't hurt."

Twinners!

All that fun needed some recoup time.

No worries.
As long as we get the sick over with before Christmas.

This boy lost his first tooth!

The Sunday before Christmas
this boy let his sister dress him up for church.
He walked in accompanied by some cool, pump up music to show off his outfit.

Don't worry.
He had the tie off before we got off the front porch.

Christmas Eve pavlova!
Not sure why Caleb is making that face.  He loved it.

Enjoying some Christmas Eve weather.

Potato sack race!
No kids were "significantly" hurt in this activity.

Gingerbread houses!

A Christmas Eve movie while eating all the candy off their creations.

Christmas fort!
Good night!

Christmas morning!

It's always so exciting!

He really wanted a picture of this.

Christmas is over,
Time to get back to work!

The carpet came up real easy.

But, it took a long time to scrape all the old padding off these stairs.

Ta da!

Happy New Year!