2015 :: week 52

 

December 20

Sunday evening brought more Catan. By now all the Crane visitors had arrived. Jill, Jake and Andrew played a few games with Will before dinner.



December 21

Monday night my parents hosted a Christmas FHE Sing-a-long. I love singing Christmas carols. Will sat on Anthony's lap like he was a puppet as Anthony moved his arms to lead the music.

December 22

Anthony was able to take a week off work to relax and celebrate Christmas with us. After traveling 6 of the previous 8 weeks it was a nice and much needed change of pace. Tuesday we ventured into KC to do Crown Center and Union Station at Christmas. Union Station is at its best during the holiday season. We had a great time hanging out with my family and our kids enjoyed being tourguides. Jill and Jake have really mastered the art of the photobomb.

December 23

We played a lot of games. I can't remember who won this one.

December 24

Cousin shot (minus Tyler) on Christmas Eve. Kids make Christmas fun. And it is nice having someone else pushing to open presents early. ;)

December 25

We told Will he could come down anytime after 7am. I just so happened to be feeding Elliott at that time and right before the clock changed to seven I thought to myself, "I am so tired, maybe we could push it to 8am." It was still dark outside and the house was quiet,  but Mr. Punctual AKA Will came bounding down the stairs at exactly 7am. Santa and his Elves were good to us this year. We had a very pleasant Christmas morning. The kids received a lot of thoughtful presents that they really enjoyed using.



December 26

Will got a HANGMAN board for Christmas and chose H-A-N-G-M-A-N as his word the first few times we played together.