Christmas & New Years

I don't know where the time went! We had a great, long break. Dave's last day at Babcock Design Group was Wednesday the 23rd (although with all his accumulated vacation time, he got paid until Jan 4th). And his first day at IBI Group Inc. is today! He's excited and nervous to start a new career and job, but I know he's going to do great.

So with the week and a half off, we had lots of time for lots of fun! The Monday before Christmas we invited Dave's parents over to decorate sugar cookies with us. It's something we do every year, and the boys just love it! Since we'd been sick, I forgot to go out and buy Christmas sprinkles... so we ended up with left over Valentines and Easter sprinkles. But the boys didn't seem to mind.

Thursday evening my parents made it into town (after a 12 hour drive that should have taken them 6). We talked and visited and accidentally opened all of Grandma Sheila & Papa Mike's gifts before bed time. Then Dave and I made sure everything was ready for Santa to come and we went to sleep too. The night was less than relaxing... The boys were SOOOOO excited for Christmas that eventually Dave ended sleeping with Dustin in our bed and I took Dustin's bottom bunk. Every half hour or so Logan would ask "is it Christmas yet?!?" and I would tell him no. He would insist he had to go potty again.

Finally 7:00 rolled around and the boys got to wake up and open gifts. They were so excited about everything! They would open a gift, play a little, open the next and just had a grand time. We ate waffles & sausage for breakfast, and my parents headed out to visit other grand kids. In the afternoon we headed over to Dave's parents house to visit and play.

The highlight of Saturday was going to my brother's house and getting to play and visit! The boys had so much fun with their cousins and Dave and I enjoyed talking and playing games. It was good to catch up. The kids didn't want to leave they had so much fun.

Sunday Grandma Sheila & Papa Mike got to go to church with us. Later that evening we got to have dinner with the Poulson family. It was fun to see them, catch up, and the boys played some games too.

Monday my parents left and the rest of the week seemed to pass by in a blur. Somewhere in there we went sledding a few times, we went to the library, everyone got hair cuts, went to the temple, saw the latest Star Wars, made slime (for us and for Logan's friend Abby), and went to lunch at Outback. We had a good relaxing break.

Going back to work has been hard on all of us! The boys and I have been cleaning the house, doing laundry, grocery shopping, and pinning some pants to hem for a friend, and starting chopping veggies for dinner. Tomorrow Logan goes back to pre-school and we'll be fully back in the swing of things.