Christmas

This year for Christmas we visited my parents and almost all of my siblings. While we were there we did all of my mom's traditional Christmas activities. Here are the boys bundled up for either caroling or ring and run (dropping cookies at friend's houses).

Did I mention that it snowed a lot while we were there? It was also really cold. Here are the boys outside playing in the snow. Collin really enjoyed the snow, to the point that he would put on shoes and go straight out without a coat.
We got some family pictures done at Kai and Stephanie's new house (which is really beautiful and sparkly and new) both for the change of scenery and because my mom refused do it at her house because her Christmas tree was dead.


This is just a random picture of Collin and Peter, I am not sure what they are doing. Perhaps drying their socks?

Kai and Stephanie gave Collin an afternoon at a climbing wall for Christmas. It was a great gift and he had a blast. He climbed all the way up the wall fearlessly and only stopped when his arms got tired.

Happy New Year!

We had a nice trip to Arizona for Christmas. There was a little bit of snow on the ground and it was very, very cold. We are lucky that the boys are really good travelers and are generally very good in the car. It is so nice to be able to play movies in the car!

It was good to relax and hang out with my family. We finally got a good family picture taken. Last year was really blurry and unusable. Brooks leaves for his mission next week so it is extra good that it worked out!



We had fun Christmas morning, Collin and Peter are finally old enough to understand what is going on and enjoyed opening their presents. Here is Peter with his stocking.



I got to see my friend Christine and her adorable family.



Colin and my mom made the most of the snow on the ground. They built lots of little snowmen and Collin loved it! I think it was below freezing for the entire trip but he didn't seem to mind!

Mom introduced Collin to the snowball fight. Bonnema couldn't resist the temptation of all that cold snow and joined in. I made the mistake of going outside to get clearer pictures and became a target myself.

Collin's eye is healing nicely but you might notice bandages on Peter's chin. In an effort to keep band aid companies in business he slipped on the stairs and split his chin open. Fortunately we have a very well stocked first aid kit!

We had a very nice trip and were very happy to get hope to our own beds!