Dec- Week 4- After Christmas, New Years

The day after Christmas, Dan took the big kids sledding at Eaglewood golf course.  

Yes, Ben is wearing PINK snow pants that belonged to McKenna and a beanie too big for his head. He didn't care.  ;)

The rest of the day we did laundry, played with new stuff, then went to dinner at 5 Guys and ran some errands to Lowe's and Famous Footwear.  

After the kids went to bed, I finally cleaned our basement tile from the construction we had done over a month ago.  I had to get it done since my parents were coming to town for a visit and would be staying down there.  :)  They got in LATE Friday night.  

Saturday, I sang Goin' Home at a funeral for a ward member and I was lucky enough to have my mom accompany me.  Later, Dan and I also attended another ward member's 80th birthday party!  

This is also the day I took my first pregnancy picture.  Here I am at 11 Weeks.  

Sunday we went to church, enjoyed dinner with my parents, then had a movie night and went to bed super late.  

Monday, Dan took McKenna on a breakfast date!  We tried to take full advantage of Dan not having any work from Dec. 23rd-Jan. 1st.  He's so great to fit in one-on-one time!  

Dan also installed a new entryway light fixture that day!!  I've been wanting one since we moved in 4 years ago and we finally decided to just DO IT!  He was all dressed up (and waiting) to go issue a temple recommend, so he just decided to get to work while he waited.  

Before...

...After

We also enjoyed more time with Gma and Gpa!!  

Tuesday we decided to stop layin' around so much and get out of the house so we headed to Kangaroo Zoo!  The kids LOVE this place!  We went a little too close to lunch time so the kids ran out of energy quicker than normal. And this was also Anna's first time!  

We had lunch at Quiznos, then home for nap time/quiet time.  My parents and brother were nice enough to babysit while Dan and I snuck away to the Temple to do some family name sealings!  What a great way to end the year! 

Tuesday evening, we went to the Grand America Hotel to see the holiday windows and giant gingerbread house.  I love that this was INSIDE (read: warm!!) and such a pretty atmosphere!  Each window contained 2-3 letters of the alphabet to look for and the kids were given some cute papers to keep track of all the letters we found.  

The pictures on the left shows how much Anna adores my brother!  

She was pretty excited they gave us free cookies too!  

The giant gingerbread house! 

Everyone went home for dinner and bedtime except Dan and Ben.  It was Ben's turn to go on a date with dad.  This time to a U of U basketball game!  They said it was SOOOO cold and windy walking there.  They ate dinner at Hires and met up with Uncle Sammy at the game!  

And cute Ben got his cute little face up on the jumbotron flashing his "U" (similar to this picture).  

On New Year's Eve we packed up, ran some errands, and headed to Mantua to be with (most of) the Webster clan.  

First time doing Anna's hair like this.  She liked it and sat pretty still for it.  And I still love her "mad" face she gives on command!  

McKenna even sat still for me to do her hair to match Anna.  

Once in Mantua, we had a pot luck dinner, fireworks at 9, let the kids stay up till 10ish, then played reverse charades and Apples to Apples.  Anna ended up taking a "nap" from 8-9pm, meaning, she woke up after we put her to bed for the night and she wouldn't go back to sleep.  So Anna was unintentionally awake with us at the stroke of midnight!  She was relatively happy as long as she was eating chips!  It was also fun as a family to remanice and talk about our highlights of 2014.  Mine would definitely be our trips to Chile and Disneyland!  

 We woke up around 8, the kids did some crafts with Gma, then we had a yummy breakfast!  We played games, hungout, took naps, cleaned up, and packed up, and left around lunchtime.