With the family...

Shayne's Aunt Laura had all of the family over to give us a chance to visit and catch up with one another.  We saw cousins we hadn't seen in a year - or more! - and simply enjoyed being together.  Cole stood up and sang "Jingle Bell Rock" with Grandma playing piano for him - what a trooper!  

Here is our family with Great Grandma

And my favorite part was Skyler raiding those plates of goodies.  I think there was 1 bite in everything - thanks to Skye.  He was climbing up on the chairs here, reaching over for cookies and looked back to Aunt Laura and gave the most hearty, deep laugh a 2 year old can give at the site of all those goodies.  Oh, this kid is going to have withdrawals after this week of parties and sweets!!

Once there was a snowman...

The boys had a snowman contest - and I wasn't allowed to say they all win.  I agreed to judge - it got them all scrambling to win the contest.  And honestly - they all made fantastic snowmen!

notice that Hunter's snowman has legs and feet - that was the clincher for the winning title this year.

Christmas with Nana & Papa

Nana made a special blankie for Danny (as he requested many times!) and I wish I could have captured the GLEE when he opened it!  She also made special pillowcases for each of the boys.  Later that night, Danny lamented that it was too bad for everyone else that he got the best presents - super hero pillowcase, the special quilt, AND a spider book.

Skyler has figured out the "presents" thing this year.  He was moving kinda slow so Daddy encouraged him to bite it open - he still listens to his daddy... 

Cole got a super slime-making kit.  The next morning he was mixing up "top-secret" and "rubber" slime - a perfect gift for our scientist!

Hunter got the complete series of 39 clues - He's almost finished a book a day!  I'm constantly finding lights left on in my car (cabin lights) because he's reading every chance he can get as we go to family events every night this week!

It's a good thing my parents spoiled Danny - we sure didn't do a good job of that (details later!)