Second Christmas

On Thursday, we played basketball up at the High School with most of the adults. My Mom, Jeni and Aubree were nice and stayed home to watch the kids. We played for an hour and that was long enough. Man a college size basketball court is big! :) It was a lot of fun though. After lunch, my Dad, Jeff, Sadie, Kevin, Marci, Derek, Kyle and I took most of the kids and went on a hike up on the mountain through the sagebrush and up to a rock cave. It was a beautiful sunny day so it was nice to get some fresh air. Then the boys went on a motorcycle ride later that day. It was a busy day!

Jeff and Sadie packed up and left after breakfast. Jeni and Kevin took their kids to go visit Gma and Gpa Sabin in Ellensburg. Then Marci, Sara, my Dad, Kyle and I played the Farming Game in the morning for a couple hours. We have played that game for years. Fruit is always the best yet my Dad always sticks up for hay. haha. It's because that's what he mainly farms in real life. :) My Dad took Sara and Zane to meet Derek in George to go back home. Jeni and Kevin had dropped off their kids after lunch for my parents to watch them so they could go celebrate their wedding anniversary. Friday night was the big bowl game of University of Washington vs BYU. My Dad and Kyle were rooting for UW and Marci was rooting for BYU. haha. It was a good time and UW ended up winning. 

We celebrated Christmas with Dee Ann, Melanie and her kids on Saturday afternoon in Tri-Cities. We ate lunch with them, exchanged gifts and played more games.

Pictures with Gma Dee Ann

Kyle went outside with some of the boys to see their new Christmas presents and Lindsey was testing out her new scooter from Gma Dee Ann (or tooter as she calls it). 

Chelsea got a play castle from Gma Dee Ann and Lindsey was checking it out. 

While the kids were playing games Melanie got this picture of Reed and Preston sharing a chair and playing together. Adorable picture. 

We went and visited Arlene at the hospital in the rehab area. She had fallen and cracked a rib and her pelvis so she had been in the hospital for a bit. Then Dee Ann watched our kids and fed them dinner while we met up with my parents, Marci and Jeni & Kevin at Texas Roadhouse for dinner. That place is so good. Love their rolls. 

On Sunday, we went to Church in Mattawa and we were the only one's still at my parent's. Everyone else was gone by then. Marci had left in the morning to get home in time for her Church. We ate a yummy Pot Roast dinner after Church and then relaxed. After naps, we packed up and left. We stopped in Ellensburg to see my grandparents and my Uncle Larry and his family were all there. That was fun to see them especially since his son, Brook, had just gotten married right before Christmas so we were able to meet his wife, Amy, and see everyone. We got home around 8pm and since the kids slept some in the car we let them stay up for a little bit and play with their toys from Christmas morning that they had to leave behind. They were excited to see everything again. The house was still a mess from Christmas morning with all the presents, stocking stuff and boxes. So we cleaned things up a bit and then put the kids down. What a fun Christmas week we had though. A lot of driving and being in the car for the kids, but they did really good (probably because they are used to it). We are thankful for all our blessings, for the good times we had with family and all the nice gifts we were given!