Christmas Vacation: Part 1

Christmas Break started at Grammie and Trev's this year. After a long day of travel, we arrived in Washington ready for some fun. Of course we had a blast hanging out with family, playing card games, eating yummy food (and way too many peanut M&Ms), watching movies, and talking late into the night :). The kids had a blast with all the entertainment Grammie's has to offer... from balls to horses and dogs... the kids couldn't have been happier.

We love these little scooter cars... so fun!

These two (Adam and Dallin) became quite the buddies. Dallin was in awe of the "awesome tennis player" after a few lessons in the racquetball court. Thanks Adam for entertaining Dallin. He is still playing tennis in the backyard.

The "Big Boys" were able to spend an afternoon on the quads. They were wet and cold, but they had a blast!

String Cheese Buddies

Wrapping presents....

Tea Ring Competition...

Thanks Becca for teaching us the ways in tea ring :).

I can't believe I didn't take any decent picture of our first Christmas morning (which was really Christmas Eve)! Horrible! But you can always refer to this blog (Becca's) for better pics...

Here is what I do have:

Christmas Eve Celebrations: Dinner, White Elephant and Santa... the Traditions Continue On

John and Grandpa enjoying the game.

The Best White Elephant Ever... lol :)

Santa Arrives... We love Santa!

No tears this year... YEAH!!!

And, of course, the evening wasn't complete without Christmas PJs and the Baughman Christmas Book.

It was lots of fun to be with Mom and Trevor and spend some holiday time with them. Thanks guys for making the efforts to make Christmas memorable. We love you! Hopefully next time we are together I will be feeling better :).

Christmas Traditions...

Baking our Favorite Christmas Sugar Cookies and watching the Christmas Devotional with Hot Cocoa... well, this year it was hot apple cidar (we ran out of milk). :)

Love these kiddos.. and their Dad :)

Connor was pretty funny.

Painting the cookies was proving to be challenging for Connor this year. He kept pushing to hard, dripping on everyone's cookies, etc.... so he found something better to do. Roll out the flour :). He kept himself busy for nearly 3o minutes ... just rolling more and more flour :).

Never a Dull Moment

Tonight...

I put a pot of water on the stove to boil... had cut the potatoes... placed the chicken in the pan... when Dallin came running in from outside. Where he had playing on Abigail's scooter. Yes... he had gashed his head. He somehow hit his head on the end of the handle bars - which are exposed metal. Wonderful. Luckily I knew John was on his way home. I called him ... asking... "Where are you right now??" He was in the driveway. He came in took one look and I turned off the pot of boiling water... put the chicken back in the fridge ... loaded up the children and headed out to find the best ER/ Clinic to stitch Dallin's head.

Lucky for us ... we have a great friend who offered to stitch him up for us at home. Thank goodness. So Dallin got his 8 stitches laying on the floor at his "bestest friend's" house. This poor kid is going to have a lot of stories to tell on his forehead. Remember our last adventure with 15 stitches almost two years ago??

Before the Stitches

After

"The culprit"

This is what left the imprint on Dallin's face.

Hopefully we won't have anymore major adventures tonight so that I can finally get the Christmas tree up :).