Christmas and New Years Eve 2019

One of my favorite things to do on Christmas Eve is to go sledding. Shayli and Jaden were reading my mind when they invited us, and we had a blast!

After heading home to get warm and send Lainee to a quick nap, we headed back to grandma and grandpa's for our Christmas Eve party! 

Lainee and Evie in their Christmas Eve jammies from grandma.

Christmas morning was MAGIC. When they walked in their eyes LIT up. It was fantastic. I am so excited to use these kayaks this summer. 

Macie loves to help my make dinner every night so we are super excited about these kids knives. We've already used them a couple of times and they have been fantastic. We love them. Lainee basically just was so excited to have her own "lips" and put it on basically non stop. 

After we finished doing presents at our house, we headed up to my mom's annual Christmas Brunch. It's the best breakfast of the year....I've been bringing Cinnamon Rolls also the past few years, and mmmm. I could eat that brunch all day. After that we opened our presents up there. And I took a whole lot of video's, and only one picture...haha. My dad always get's Jake the best presents, and this year was no exception. Luckily my mom told me about 2 weeks before Christmas what they got him, because it took a whole lot of convincing to keep Jake from ordering one of these before Christmas. 

The day after Christmas we headed to Manti to Grandma Mattie's for our Kilmer Christmas celebrating. They have great sledding hills there, so of course we had to hit the snow. 

Grandma made all of the great grandkids hats, Lainee and Evie of course got matching ones. 

  

New Years Eve we decided to stay home and have a little party at our house. We ate pizza, played games, and the kids watched a movie while the grown ups played a game. Then we watched the ball drop at 10:00 on the east coast and were in bed by 11:30, haha!

The kids thought the sparkling apple cider was the best part of the night! Especially Lainee, it killed her to wait until the ball dropped. She kept asking "I drink it now? I drink it now?" She was a fan. 

It was an awesome week, we always love the 2 weeks Jake is home from work with us. It was rough getting back into the routine of school....but we're there and going, and looking very much forward to Spring Break!