Merry Christmas!!!

This time of year makes me think of all the many things we have to be grateful for. We have been so blessed. I am very thankful for all the time we were able to spend with family this Christmas season.

The boys were spoiled with presents this year. They have been having a blast playing with all of them since we have been home.

Jake's parents had all of their children home this year. Between all of us there are six little boys. They had fun playing together.

We took the kids sledding at my parent's house. Taylor loved it. He was a trooper carrying his sled up the hill over and over after he would sled down.

We spent Thanksgiving with Jake's family this year. It was a fun week. We went to the Harry Potter movie (I loved it), and then we went to Walmart at midnight for the black Friday excitement. It was crazy trying to get the discount movies, there were so many people pushing and shoving. On Saturday we talked Jake's family into going up into the mountains to cut down a Christmas tree. We ended up with a tall skinny tree. I didn't really like it at first, but everyone was waiting on us so I settled for it. Now that it is up, I really like it. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving.

 

When we got home, we set up our Christmas tree.

Taylor really liked putting the ornaments on the tree. James found some horse ornaments, and was content just playing with them.