Christmas Vacation!

We had a great Christmas day! Here are a few pictures to highlight .....

We had a fun time opening presents and enjoying them on Christmas day. Thankfully we didn't have to be to church until 10:30, so we had time to open gifts in our PJ's before it was time to get ready.

The kids all got new slippers

Brandon was pretty excited about his Beyblades

Daddy got a foosball game

Here's Brandon on his new ripstick, in his new robe

Here's Daddy getting in an afternoon nap

Beyblade

We had an awesome week after Christmas. Justin took the week off and the kids had a list of fun things they wanted to do. We scheduled out the whole week, full of fun activities and big projects that we wanted to get done around the house. It was a totally productive week, and so fun too. We even had some double elimination tournaments.

Here's Katelyn with grapefruit on her forehead. :)

Brandon got a helicopter for Christmas and Justin brought his home from work, so we had many helicopter races!

We had lots of citrus to juice, and the kids loved doing it almost every day.

Justin took each of the kids on a special Daddy Date. He only remembered to get pictures on Katelyn's date though.  She loved going on the merry-go-round 3 times and eating ice cream!

Horse #1

Horse #2

and Horse #3

and the ice cream mustache

Brandon loved going laser tagging on his date and Lindsey loved going to the movies.

We played a new fun family game one night....

And we got to do the Pacific Science Center one day

The butterfly house is always a favorite. Justin got one on his head this time....

 

This is a video of Brandon's reaction to the butterflies flying around him. (he he!) 

and the laser show was fun too

and here we are driving by the new Amazon offices with a rainbow up ahead

And finally, on Saturday we went sledding up in the mountains with the Bjorns

Lots of snow!

Apparently they have a little roof built over this fire hydrant to keep it  from totally getting buried

Ready to go!

Here is a view from atop the big sledding hill. They also had smaller hills for the little kids.

Here are the guys, Justin and Andy

Katelyn and Gavin loved going up and down the little hills

We finished up the day with pizza and games at the Bjorn's house.

What a fun, fun week! Can we do this once a month?