Christmas Break...

Connor was the best dressed sister at Jace's basketball practice...

Colton brought his bow over to try out our fancy shooting range...

The Luedke's spent the night...

And the girls fought the boys in a nerf war!

The Aftermath

Happy Kids...

A happy boy trying out his new bow...especially when Dad helped him set up a shooting range in the basement!

Even got Dad to "dab"

Connor and Dad had to team up to look for Nerf Rival balls around the house!

Game time!

Hey Connor--do you want to build a fort! And her and Jace built a fort and for the next half hour they read books and did their homework!

Dad helped Jace rig up a truck to pull behind his chopper!

Trying to throw some sparks in the garage because it's too cold to go outside!

Connor has her own spot to sit in when she watches Jace shoot his bow!

A.k.a. stay in that chair so you don't bounce around and end up in front of an arrow...

Forgot to get a picture of this before I opened it...but couldn't help but love seeing this in Jace and Connor's handwriting!

Some days just aren't our best...

This is Jace and his "Fuller" face--the kid from Home Alone that drinks too much pepsi and might wet the bed!

And we do some of this over Christmas break...

We got Monopoly for Christmas and it was a lot of fun for everyone to play!

Well...everyone except Jace when he lost the first game....

And we got a Hootie Owl game too--which is all about teamwork to get the owls home before the sun comes up!  Since it's teamwork everyone wins or everyone loses together!

Christmas

The Tharman family, that is soon to become 4!

And the Johnson family...who told us on Christmas they would be a family of 4 in August!

The Gang's all Here!!!

My FAVORITE People....

The Tharmans got Jace one of those crazy bikes that spins around and shoots sparks!

Christmas at Home

Christmas Morning!!!

Reading the note from Santa!

Having a little breakfast...

Even Pepper got in on the action for awhile!  Her favorite spot is....Jed!

A new coat, and a Barbie Doctor with twin babies!

Santa brought Jace a John Deere train set!

And for Connor....a Dollhouse!

The kids each got a Nerf Rival gun for Christmas...so now we have little yellow balls all over the house...

And another tractor to add to Jace's collection.

Jace's present from Santa got him just a little excited...

His very own bow!  Santa says it is big enough to grow with him through college!  HA!

We got him some arrows for his old bow--but turns out they will work on the new bow too!

Christmas Eve

Ready to go!  With more enthusiasm than this photo shows...

More smiles once we got to Grandma and Grandpa Boos' house.

Photos of the grandkids...when some aren't looking, and then everyone looks and one of them hides behind his sister's hair bow...

I guess I didn't get a Luedke family photo...but I got their kids!  And the Powell family!

Matching pajamas for the boys...

And SO excited to get this chopper!!!

Connor and the girls got a mermaid tail blanket that Grandma made!  And you can kinda see the matching pjs the girls have!