Family Time

After Christmas, some of Caleb's family came up and we all spent a couple of days hanging out together.

We went to the Church History Museum in Salt Lake and the kids had a ton of fun exploring the children's area.

The dance area was a pretty big hit. The kids dress up in authentic attire and then watched a little video that taught them some traditional dance moves.

On a dare from his cousin, Corbin also tried out the female steps :)

Seth found this cute little door, just his size and spent the next 20 minutes trying to open it. Since it wasn't real, he ended up leaving rather frustrated.

Corbin was quite proud of his tower that he managed to build (with a little help from Uncle Bryan :)

The next day we bundled the kids up and sent them out to play in the snow.

Makelle was mad that her overprotective mother wouldn't let her play out on the icy lake in the background.

Seth was so excited to go 'ouww' but hadn't had a nap and was in tears within minutes. He loves being outside and asks to go out multiple times a day, but I guess it was too much fun all wrapped up into one week and he just needed some downtime.

All the uncles eventually went out and built a ramp up the side of the house for the kids to ride down.

At first they were content sledding, but pretty soon the snowboards came out and when that wasn't enough, Corbin decide to learn how to do jumps. Our video quality didn't turn out very good, but here is Corbin doing his first jump on a snowboard. He was pretty proud of himself, despite the crash landing.

Merry Christmas

On Christmas Eve we ate our 'Mary and Joseph Dinner' together at home.

Afterwards we gathered in the living room and read the story of Christ's birth out of the bible while the kids acted things out. Makelle LOVED being Mary and getting to swaddle baby Jesus.

Seth wasn't so excited and refused to wear any of his biblical attire.

Then we went and drove around looking at Christmas lights in the newly fallen snow. When we got home each of the kids decorated a cookie for Santa. Corbin put peanut butter on his because when he met Santa a few weeks ago he told Corbin he likes peanut butter cookies the most, but Mom made sugar cookies instead without realizing that important fact so he had to improvise.

Seth, Makelle and Caleb had been sick with the stomach flu over the weekend and we joked that it was a miracle Corbin didn't get it, because he has literally thrown up every single year on Christmas or Christmas Eve for the past 5 years in a row. We must have forgotten to knock on wood though because around 4:00 am we heard him in his room getting sick. Tradition, I suppose.

Eventually we all got back to sleep for a couple of more hours and he felt pretty good by morning and completely forgot about any sickness when we saw that Santa had come to visit our house. They spent the next two hours opening and playing with presents intermittently until they worked through their giant pile of gifts.

Their last gift was on the tree in an envelope instead of under it, which they thought was funny, until Corbin read Mom and Dad's gift and then they were just excited.