Christmas always starts with Christmas Eve at Meme and Poppy's house. We exchange all of the family presents.
Harper opened this bag of bath stuff from the Hatts and held up the shampoo and said "This is exactly what I wanted"
Holden wasn't interested in opening presents. He just wanted to sit in his chair.
Or on the box
Jack slept through the presents and opened his after everyone left
Leaving the reindeer food in the front lawn
The cup and cookies Harper selected for Santa
All of the Santa presents lined up pretty
Harper and his new Mater
Allen and the boys playing with the new toys
Poppy helping Holden open his present
Harper riding his bike outside
After we opened our Santa presents we headed to the Hatts for breakfast and to play with their new toys!
Nathan and Allen playing their new Kinect game
Harper making his styrofoam "snow"
It took 3 people to clean up his mess!
We all headed to Marybeth's house for lunch. Seven of the nine Lancaster kids were represented there. I can't even remember the last time we were all together like that-maybe our wedding 9 years ago!
Lori and Harper playing under the table (two years ago it was Marybeth playing under the table!)
Nathan loving on Holden
The kids decided to climb on each other one last time!
We had a great Christmas and we are so glad that we made the long trip to Michigan!
I asked Harper if we could share a necklace with Avalyn. He told me we were all out. I wonder why since he has on atleast 5! He did find one for her!
Harper and Cole eating marshmallows
It was nice to be home by 9. New Years just isn't what it used to be, but we had fun celebrating with friends!
I was babysitting Ella because Harrison has a high fever and had to go to the hospital.
It took a few days to get settled back into our house after our trip-unpacking, laundry and putting away Christmas presents. I did have some time to work on some projects around the house though.
We sure did miss Harper and are so glad that he is home!
Holden wasn't interested in opening presents. He just wanted to sit in his chair.
Jack slept through the presents and opened his after everyone left
Leaving the reindeer food in the front lawn
All of the Santa presents lined up pretty
He immediately got on his bike
Holden checking out Harper's new book
After we opened our Santa presents we headed to the Hatts for breakfast and to play with their new toys!
We all headed to Marybeth's house for lunch. Seven of the nine Lancaster kids were represented there. I can't even remember the last time we were all together like that-maybe our wedding 9 years ago!
We had a great Christmas and we are so glad that we made the long trip to Michigan!
We took Harper to the mall and he was in love! He kept asking to go back all week. He loved the Rainforest Cafe, Bass Pro Shop and the indoor carousel. He also got his picture taken with Santa again at Bass.
We went to Crossroads Village to ride the train to look at lights. But when we got there, the trains were already full. We had fun walking around and doing other stuff anyway.
