Christmas!!

Christmas is pretty much the most popular holiday of the year, even Jens could tell you that.

 She had a performance for her pre-school and sang "Police Nobby Dog" and Rudolph.

The best part of Christmas is spending time with little cousins that aren't mobile enough to escape.

 Rock fought hard to spend all day, everyday in the snow.

 Cute little cousins.

 Two moms just checking out.

 I don't know why he's giving me that face, but I can't wait until he's a teenager when he'll never make it again.

 Christmas morning was early for everyone, but mostly for Ryker. He was awoken every hour on the hour by Rock asking if it was morning yet.

 The kids attacked the stockings first with gusto.

  They were excited but dazed.

  Well, everyone but Rock was dazed.

 Selfies!!

 CHRISTMAS!!

The morning was filled with "AWESOME!" and "COOL!".

The biggest presents was their new playroom. DeA worked hard getting it ready.

I think they like it.

The kids received Kindles from Gma and Gpa, Ryker was obsessed was downloading free games and apps much more than he wanted to actually play them.

Night didn't come quickly enough for the tired little puppies.

Her fingers were lovingly painted by Uncle Nick.

The playroom was equipped with our old school SNES and Super Tecmo Bowl. SWEET!

We've had some beautiful mornings.

Why does this picture seem familiar?

Rock discovered night sledding and was in love.

Meanwhile, Ryker discovered a warm blanket and fell in love.

He's a cute little guy.

Nick and I gave rides to the kids on Dave's snowmobiles. They had a blast.

Is he happy? I can't tell?

SANTA!!

Santa made his annual flight into Manson with Papa Dale (not pictured: Papa Dale). 

The kids were obviously very excited to rub shoulders with the big guy.

We walked down to Allison's where Santa was posing for pictures. This was the best one out of a few tries.

Rock was beyond distressed that Santa had not yet received his letter. We were getting down to crunch time and that letter had important information on it!

All the excitement wore them plum out.

The tree was trimmed, the stockings hung and Raf-gato loved.

We were going to take cookies to friends and family so the kids turned it into an FHE project.

They rolled out the dough and Jens assumed her usual supervisor role.

The hard part was getting the frosting just right.

There had to be lots of taste tests.

Eventually a house will be built on that lot, but until then we are loving the view out the front porch.

We took the kids shopping for presents and then capped it off with a little Red Robin. Ryker kills the mac and cheese there.

I don't remember why Jens was in her jammies, but she was.

Rock complains that we don't have a lot of pictures of him but then he does this in all the pictures.

Or this. He does this a lot in pictures, too.

Mini-gingerbread houses were fun but the kids wanted to eat them right away.

The frosting makes the roof stronger, right Ryker?

Hey look, he smiled for the picture!