Christmas 2015 has come and gone in a flash! It was a very relaxing, two week break from school that we all needed.
Christmas Eve was spent at Steph and Dan's "new" house and it was so awesome. They did an amazing job rebuilding their burned home and we definitely crisened the new place with a fabulous Christmas Eve party. Steph was worried about so many people in a fairly small house, but it didn't feel that way at all. We ate delicious food, drank yummy cocktails, laughed and enjoyed family time.
Earlier in the morning on Christmas Eve, Steph and I had a pie baking session. We both had the goal to become a better pie maker and Steph ended up finding Georgia's pie crust recipe during the remodel of their house. So we were determined. We planned the variety of pies we would make, bought all the stuff and met early in the morning at my house to....totally FAIL!! Pie makers we are not!! Literally crust after crust was an epic flop of messy-crumbly-fall apart dough. We laughed our butts off because we just couldn't get the damn crust to work. So we ended up making 6 various pies with pieced together crusts. None of them looked good at a all... But thankfully Aunt Ann made desserts also so no one had to eat our pies. It was comical considering we are both good cooks who enjoy being in the kitchen, we have a brain, yet we couldn't make a pie crust to save our life. We aren't done trying!! We both said Georgia was watching us just shaking her head.
Christmas Day was just the 5 of us. My parents went to spend Christmas with baby Olivia and my brother, John/Mary were at the cabin so we just enjoyed the day together at our house. Husband and I both noticed the kids received less this year, but the stuff they did get was what they truly wanted...not just toys. TJ got an Xbox one (which isn't cheap but was his one big gift), Beau got an electric scooter and roller blades, both items he's been begging for so he was super stoked, and Finley got a new beauty vanity that is pretty awesome. We couldn't put any gifts under three because Maverick chews anything left in th ground...so there wasn't a present in sight until the 24th. I really liked that because it didn't cause the kids to endlessly focus on and snoop around the gifts...which aren't the reason for Christmas in th first place.
We took a few day trips to Apex to ski and the boys had basketball practice several times over break. Husband and I just took the final decorations down and we at settling in for the start of school. It's hard to imagine, but TJ has only four more Christmas's at home until he's gone to college. That blows my mind...and makes me have a crying panic attack.
Maverick's favorit spot.
Enjoying all th snow. We had a good white Christmas.
Kyle and CJ invite Husband and TJ to a Seahawks game two days after Christmas. They had an amazing time.
Finley received a ballet barre in her room for Christmas.
Beau is definitely our ocean kid. TJ and Finley like it but I end up taking Beau boogie boarding several times a day...even well after the sun has set and it's dark, he's out there booging. 
