Busy Beautiful Holidays

We kicked off our weekend with making some holiday snacks for our neighbors, and friends. 

These are what the kids made!

Saturday Kade had an all day robotics competition 

And Jenna had a basketball tournament that she made 3rd place in

 Mike and I tag teamed going back and forth, so both kids felt supported

 Once Jenna was done she got to hang out with her brother.  

Which just means they were crazy and played around while waiting,

Sunday morning we were honored to give the Advent reading and candle lighting at church

Can I just take a moment to gush over this sweet boy?!?!

That afternoon Jenna's basketball team got to go to a BSU game together

And Mike and Kade got some boy time having lunch and playing games at D&B!

That Night Matt and Mandi came over

Then we went for a special Christmas surprise 

Link to pictures here

We have a yearly tradition of staying in a hotel of Christmas Break. This year we stayed at the Hilton downtown Boise. After check in we took a walk to see the tree, and get snacks.

 Then we went swimming

 After having dinner we watched a Christmas Movie while the kids played games

 Once we were done on our little "stay-cay" we went home for Mike to work on the kid's Christmas Fort, and the kids colored in the snow.
(Link to fort pictures)

 

Kade had to go home for a day, so we took a break on festivities. 

Jenna had a girly sleepover hangout with one of her best friends. 

Then Thursday night we had a gingerbread party!

(Link to pictures here)

Thanksgiving Break 2016

Look at all I have to be thankful for!

We kicked off our Thanksgiving break with Jenna's 1st basketball tournament for club ball!

Sunday we had my family over for Thanksgiving with Kade

The kids built lots of forts during the break, because we always make time for cuddling

And there was definitely baking

 We went to the village with friends, so James could see Santa, and our big kids could skate!

 Then we went to get a snack at It's Sugar

 Then we went for a walk to play at the park!

We started decorating for Christmas starting with the putting lights on the house!

The Tree went up

 And the most important part of the decorations we put up our Nativity 

We took the kids to Wahooz for some fun before Kade had to go to his other house

That Jenna and I made appetizers for Thanksgiving 

Then we spent the rest of the weekend celebrating with Mike's family seeing his sister came to town with her squishy bunch of cuties!