Holiday Awesomeness!

This holiday season has been unforgettable!  My brother Rich and his family flew in to spend Christmas with us and it was pure awesomeness!  The kids were so excited to be reunited.

We made candies one night, and colored until it was time to go home.

 The next day we went to the North Pole on the North Pole Express. We sang, we danced with elves, we sipped hot chocolate, ate cookies, talked to Santa, and had the time of our lives!

The kids faces were priceless and the excitement of Christmas hit us all in the face.

The kids loved the cute elves and kept them in the back of the train with us the entire time.

James loved watching out the window and freaked when we saw Santa outside waving.  He kept telling the train, "STOP!  Go back!  It's Santa!"

Thanks Grandma and Papa for an unforgettable night!

 Christmas Eve we went over to uncle Mike's house and saw more family.  Sharon had a cute snowman thermometer crafts for the kids to make.  James' turned into a clown snowman.  I love it!

We had a great time eating, catching up and laughing the night away.

We got a shot of all the men (minus Quinn and Mack), Grandpa with 3 of his 4 children.

 Later on Christmas Eve we headed to Grandma and Papa's house and the kids opened pajamas from Andy and Jenni.  The kids slept at Mom and Dad's and Micah, baby and I slept at Andy's.  We woke up early Christmas morning and got to Mom and Dad's to see that Santa had come!  We found the kids awake and decided it was time to open presents.

 The only sad part was poor Kenzie had been up all night long with the pukes.  You know a kid is sick when they don't even want to open presents.  Poor girl.  The kids we SPOILED rotten by their aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins.  I loved watching all the kids together.  It was heaven.

James, and Braxton got awesome remote control cars, Bailey got lipstick and nail polish (and gave free manicures and make overs to everyone), Kayla got Legos, Ari got a play mat, and Kenz got a microphone.  Everyone was thrilled.