Christmas pictures at last (hehehehe.....)

So, my mom gave me a hard time that I never got our christmas pictures at their house put on the blog (a lot of sickness and callings getting in the way, not to mention the everyday other stuff like kids and house, etc.) so here they are reeeaaaallly late. hehhehe. at least they are here for anyone who is interested to glance at. Christmas was fun though. We spent it in Chicago with the Connells. This is going to be our last Christmas traveling because it is such a crappy time to travel and with two kids.....well it is time we become our own family with our own traditions. Not that we didn't have fun with our families, but it is just time. So, We have the traditionaly opening of the presents. We don't have anything before that because we arrived horribly late on the 23rd, actually it turned out the 24th. Because of all the stinkin storms in Chicago our flight was delayed from 2:30 until after 5pm. We actually loaded the plane at 4:15 (after being at the airport since noon)and then didn't take off until 5:10. We landed and then the pilot told us we had to wait out on the pavement for a gate because there were none available and he said that we were fifth in line with the first one in line having waited over an hour! We ended up waiting an hour and a half just to get off the stupid plane!! We got to my parents house around 2am. We were supposed to be there at 10, but oh well. The crazy part of it all was the kids were absolutely perfect! And I am not kidding. The people around us kept saying that we had the best behaved kids ever. The guy in front of us told us we should teach classes on parenting kids to perfect behavior. Yeah, we were just blessed that night. The next night was Christmas Eve and we caroled at a rest home and went home to find the lights out and many guests with us. We lit all of these candles and spread them around the house so we could eat by candlelight. This took a good 30-45 minutes. Just as we were about to say the prayer to bless us that we didn't spill hot soup on us because we couldn't see a single thing, the lights came back on. Yeah, so no pictures of either of those events. So, back to the actual pictures. Opening presents......trying things on.......trying out new toys........saying thank you to everyone in particular..........yeah, you know the drill.

Later on Christmas Day Adam (cousin) and Bethany (cousin's wife) and their son Carston (I think? Sorry if I got that wrong) came to stay for a few days. Carston and Kenton are a matter of weeks apart and they really enjoyed getting around together. We caught them here playing on the stairs and yelling and pounding together. It really was cute to watch.

We played a lot of games and had a lot of fun. One of the things that was given to the "family" (more for something to have at home for the boys to play together when we are home) was several air soft guns. The day that Amy and David flew out they spent the morning out playing target practice on each other. Kinsley and Kenton spent quite a while at the back door watching these boys playing war games with each other.

So, all in all that was our Christmas vacation. Too bad it is so late, but hey it is there if you were truly interested in what we did for Christmas. If not, too bad for you that you just read all of that :)