For some reason when these pictures uploaded onto the page, they came up completely backward. So the pictures on top were yesterday and the pictures on the bottom were last week. So weird!
Hiking with friends, all the kids had walking sticks by the time we were done.
Carter pretending to be a sloth.
Elise put on her Elsa dress and boots to put on her new Elsa headphones and then pretended to play on her tablet while on the phone with Oma and Opa.
Playing swingball.
Elise didn't like her new Elsa boots because they were too tight so she gave them to Charlee.
Making bouncy balls from the kit Thomas got Carter for Christmas.
I got a new blender for Christmas so I took the blades out of my old one and gave it to the kids to play with.
Elise's Present Pet.
Elise super excited to open her LOL Surprises and Present Pets she picked out with gift cards from Uncle Kelly.
Elise and Oma playing with Elise's new Baby Alive doll from Uncle Mike and Aunt Judy.
Quinn trying out her new Christmas shirt.
Jeremy and I finished our trail run without bloody legs.
Dad and Thomas weren't so lucky.
Carter rode his bike and Elise ran and then walked while the rest of us ran.
Ready for a Christmas day run/walk/bike ride.
Watching everyone open presents.
Reading a book Santa brought him while waiting for Uncie J and Uncie Taco to arrive.
When a package arrives with the new book you ordered with birthday money while you are watching a Christmas movie, the struggle is real!
Merry Christmas! What a perfect day for a fun, little interview post with the kids. I looked back at last year's post and I guess holiday-themed Snapchat pictures with Elise will be a recurring theme for this post! Read last year's post here, 2018 here, 2017 here, and 2016 here.
What's on your Christmas list? Carter: Legos and books Elise: LOLs, Hatchimals, and Scruff-a-Luvs What is the best part about Christmas? Carter: Being with family and opening presents. Elise: My family and presents. Why do we celebrate Christmas? Carter: For Jesus' birth. Elise: Because of family and God's birthday. Where does Santa live? Carter: At the North Pole. Elise: In the North Pole. What are the names of Santa's reindeer? Carter: I have no idea, one's Blitzen and one's Dancer and Prancer. Elise: Prancer, Dancer, Dancer
What do you think Santa's favorite food is? Carter: Cookies Elise: Hmmm, I don't know. What will Santa bring mommy and daddy for Christmas? Carter: What they want. Elise: Stuff you guys like. What's your favorite thing about Marco (their Elf on the Shelf)? Carter: He's silly. Elise: That he is so funny!
Thanks to my computer struggling to upload pictures last night. I finally gave up and went to bed.
Carter wanted to learn how to play Solitaire and he caught on really quickly.
Walking through the neighborhood to look at lights and saw this beautiful house!
We totally forgot Carter's birthday was displayed during the month of December, thankfully a friend texted us so we got a picture!
Carter came in so Skippy had to hide!
My lovely Christmas present Ty made me. I can display my race mugs and some of the teacups my grandma saved for me.
Elise waiting for Carter during a trail hike for her/bike ride for him.
Marco was a little silly and painted Ty's toenails one night! So glad he played along, this may have been the kids' favorite thing Marco did!
The kids using Tesla as a pillow while doing their Raz-Kids.
Tesla's first trail run with me. She had a blast!
Elise helped me make all kinds of treats to give our neighbors and friends for Christmas.
Gift exchange with her bestie!
Gift exchange with the big siblings.
Making special ornaments we got in a winter grab bag from the library.
This is my favorite house we've seen when driving around looking at Christmas lights. So beautiful!
The kids had a gingerbread hunt and measured the gingerbread people when they found them. Elise measured with bows end to end, Carter used a ruler.
Helping me make more treats. This might be her favorite part!
Jeremy makes these cookies a lot and she talked about him the whole time we made them, it was so sweet!
Mile fun run out at the trails by our house.
They wanted to ride the trails after our run. This convinced Elise to take her training wheels off because it was impossible to ride the trails with training wheels!
Ty found these awesome Oreo "gingerbread" houses for us!
Doing a fun experiment to see what liquid would dissolve candy canes the fastest.
Making sugar cookies. We always think of Papa Cox when we do this because we use the rolling pin he made us. We also get to use my Grandma Darlyne's sifter.
I loved that Carter made arms on the snowman.
Carter's beautiful tree.
Carter helped Elise wrap presents she made for her uncies.
