Christmas #1

We were lucky again this year to have Thunder's family come join us for Christmas.  His brother, wife and two kids came for 3 days, and Nana and Papa came for a week.  Here are our kids dressed up for church the week before Christmas.

You can see that Sunrise was thrilled to have his picture taken!

Thunder took advantage of the snow and took his dad and brother out for a muddy spin on the Rhino.

After all, what's better than being splashed with freezing mud??

Cousin R1!

Uncle K with Tornado and Sunshine, chillin and watching a movie.

The cousins had fun making a snow fort together.  Don't believe Sunshine's face for a minute... he loved it out there.

We also had a kids' craft one morning, where each kid got a Christmas moose and got to make a nametag out of Shrinky Dinks.  Shrinky Dinks are so fun! Even if one falls on the floor of the oven, smokes, and gets all melted everywhere, they are awesome.

Cousin R2, rockin out!

Here is everyone assembled for Christmas dinner, a few days before actual Christmas day.  We fried our turkey again, and it was ahhhmmaaaaazing.  We also had mashed potatoes, corn, sweet potato casserole and rolls.

We also opened presents with Uncle K and Aunt V's family before they had to leave the next day.  It was awesome craziness!

We stayed up late getting everything opened, packed and ready for them to go home the next day.  It was such a wonderful visit, and as usual, too short!