Merry Christmas!

We had a very nice Christmas. Last weekend we celebrated with Eric's family, which was great! This weekend we spent Xmas eve and christmas at my parents. It was fun at both events to reconnect and catch up with extended family first and foremost. Secon the food was excellent! And third, the kids of course got quite a few new fun toys. Levi's got a new basketball hoop from us he's crazy about, spending hours dunking his little soccer ball in. He enjoys most if you play with him, and enjoys passing the ball. He also got a little leap frog phone and iPad toy that he loves from my parents, and I've been really pleased by the leap frog educational side to it. It's our first time with that type of toy. Kaylee has been having a great time with her rapunzel tower and princesses playing pretend scenarios with them in there. She also really loves her first Barbie rapunzel from us.

My dad came today and put the new gate and rail extensions on the bunk bed. The safety of their new bed has gone up a ton all the sudden. Thanks dad!

I (and I hope Eric) are on vacation for the next two weeks. I hope to do a lot of fun things with the kids. I'll update on what those things are! Also, we plan on continuing our work on the basement, having all the new stuff I already gave a whole carload ready to donate. I've been teaching kaylee about donation, and she helped figure out what of hers she would donate to little kids that don't have----... Also we're going to clean up the laundry room, the storage and the guest bedroom downstairs...all rooms still feeling the crunch from the construction. Hopefully well finish in time for the smith visit next week, which we are looking forward to! Merry Christmas to you all... Stay safe too!