Holiday fun...

Our holiday has been the most fun few weeks of this year, by far! Aidan got out of school on December 20 for Christmas break, the other 3 kids arrived on December 22, which was a day we have been counting down to for months! Their arriaval brought all sorts of excitement, and in that excitement a little bit of chaos, but it was a good chaos, all 7 of us were happy and super excited!

On Christmas eve we went out to Adam's parents house and met up with Sister Jen and her 3 kids. We had a White Elephents gift exchange which was all sorts of fun. The girls had a battle over some biolage hair product, and the boys battled over frisbee's and footballs. Zander took up the strategy of just sneaking around when people were not looking to switchfor the 2 or 3 gifts he really wanted. The whole thing was adorable and fun! After the fun day with mom mom and pop pop we went over to visit our great friends Dirk and Racheal Harper. We visited, exchanged cookies and love, and it was a great day all in all.

Christmas morning came and with our normal rules (Kids can come out of their bedrooms from the time we tuck them in Christmas eve night until we knock on their doors Christmas Morning) I told Dylan to go in and wake up the younger kids at about 6:30. I got a scream of "Jen, Vomit emergency!" and came running. Apparently Aidan Wolfe felt sick but thought he could hold it in and by the time he lost it he couldn't get to the bathroom, so he just leaned over the middle bunk in our bunk bed and puked all over the floor. He of course didn't come to alert anyone because he had been threatened with terrible things if he came out of his room, so he didn't, and left it for mom to clean up in the morning..... Fantastic! So Christmas fun got put off a little while as I cleaned up the disgusting mess that decided to give us a Christmas surprise. So after a good shower and a change of clothes we were ready for our festivities!

Here is the big pile of presents for our family

Everyone got just what they wanted... Lyndsay got good running shoes, Dylan an innerframe backback for a hiking/camping trip him and Adam are planning. Aiden T. got his covetted camelback, Aidan W. got the bike he has wanted for many months, and Zanders prize was a spongebob painting book (from his stocking) He also got a VSmile game system which he loves. Everybody is in heaven

Our new years was fun as well, but that will be for another post... maybe tomerrrow!!