Belated Merry Christmas!!

At the risk of sounding extremely cheesy, the best way I can describe Christmas this year is magical.  The kids are at such a fun age--Brady was TOTALLY into everything Christmas & Liv is his little sidekick so naturally she was excited about everything too!  :)  We were so happy to have Uncle EJ & Aunt Jenee here for a few days & tried to spend as much time with them as possible!  The kids spent a belated Christmas with Grammy & Grampy in Cody for a few days as well & had a total blast!

We spent Christmas Eve with my family & Grandma Kessler by going to the Candlelight Service (Brady was super pumped about getting to hold his own!) and having crab cheese sandwiches & soup & birthday cake for Jesus.  These are all traditions from my childhood & so much fun to share with my own little ones. We stayed late at Nana & Papa's house opening gifts & playing catch up with EJ & Jenee! 

We had a plaque made for Dad's hole in one last year

 Oops!  Cut off Papa's head here--he got a couple kayaks for the cabin that the kids were trying out!

Here is Brady coming into our room to wake us up--I took video on our video camera of him skipping down the hallway, arms flailing around & squealing in delight at seeing what Santa left under the tree & that he ate his cookies & drank his milk & took the carrots up to the reindeer!  The first thing he grabbed was Livvy's dolly & took it right to her while she was still coming down the hallway with Daddy--absolutely melted our hearts.  The next two hours were spent opening gifts & PLAYING.  It was just so fun.

You realize your little girl is still a baby in a lot of ways when she takes her dolly on a walk in the little stroller then says "my turn!" and tries to climb in. :)  Here she is sitting in the dolly's crib feeding her a bottle.

**I'm sorry this post has been heavy on the narrative & light on the photos, but I have been TERRIBLE about taking pictures lately since my camera has been on the fritz...hoping someday for a new camera!**