Christmas 2016- 7

Toward the end of the week, things really slowed down. By Thursday, Alison and I did a grocery run, and tried to "regroup" on the food situation. There was a temple trip, especially for Nathan and Jaden to do baptisms. Later that night, some of the guys went to an OSU football game in San Antonio. On Friday, the Petes loaded up and headed toward Utah. There was also a trip to the dinosaur museum... in there somewhere :) On Sunday morning, the Christiansens went to church with the Andersons and the Simms went to church with us and then headed toward California. Sunday dinner was us, the Andersons, and the Christiansens. We went to Andersons for dinner and FHE on Monday. The Christiansens stayed until Wednesday, Jan. 4, their flight back to SLC was early afternoon. Man...what a Christmas holiday...everybody needs a NAP! By Wednesday evening...it was REALLY quiet here ;)

Christmas 2016- 6

By Tuesday, our schedule had slowed down a bit. I think the kids were still going strong, but it was the adults that were slowly wearing out :) Some activities for Tuesday and Wednesday included an afternoon at the movies, a hotdog roast, and the swimming pool. There was always various games and puzzles in the "down time". Mike and Carrie and the boys and the dogs, headed back to Houston on Wednesday afternoon. Only in Texas, can you swim a couple of days after Christmas- lol.

Christmas 2016- 5

The plan for Monday, the day after Christmas was the Dragon/Princess birthday party for all of the December birthday kids. Unfortunately I was sick, in bed that day. But...I still have pics of all the festivities :) Everyone else took care of the kids and the party. Audrey planned the Dragon/Secret Room part, for the big boys and some activities for the little boys. Annie, Alison, and Ashley took care of the princess party. Annie made two awesome cakes. Audrey planned a "dragon lunch". The other adults helped with kid supervision ;) We had reserved the plantation house for the main part of the party and then back to our house for lunch. The December birthdays are Hazel, Owen, Jaden, and Savie...and Micah :) Here are some of the fun pics, from an awesome day...that I missed :(