For Christmas this year Grandma and Papa bought tickets for everyone to ride the Polar Express in Williams.We have been wanting to ride it for a long tome so we were all very excited. We went up a couple days early stopped in Mesa to see the temple lights and stayed with our friends Rob and Marnee in Prescott. Then we continued up to Flagstaff where we checked into our hotel and then back to Williams to ride the train
The girls - Bailee Kylee Lexi and Tristin - with matching bathrobes and pigtails of course
The boys - being goofy and not matching anything
Uncle Zack and Aunt Liz getting into the Holiday Spirit with pajamas and Santa hat
Jadie Noah and Eli enjoying their hot chocolate and sugar cookies
Santa even came aboard!
Koston seeing Santa for the first time
Jadie with Uncle Matt and Aunt Afton playing with the jingle bell Santa gave them
The cousins after the train ride
Jared was able to get a hotel room for a really good deal through the Ritz so we stayed another night up there and even got to roast marshmallows in the fireplace and make hot chocolate
The next morning the kids got to play in the snow - this was the bottom part of the snowman that that Brandon Paul and Mel made the night before
Grandma even found a box that we could slide in
Lexi getting nailed by the snow on her way down
Jadie learned to cover her face after seeing Lexi
Bailee made it down in one piece and still smiling
Raden tried to go over the snow ramp like a penguin
And yes even I got to go down and get in on the fun -
It was a great trip and we hope to do it again this year !!!!!
Christmas seemed to come and go - my goal for this year is to have everything finished the first week of Dec so I can actually relax and enjoy the Christmas season. I was just so stressed out and so busy I feel like I didnt take the time to just sit and ponder - with hot chocolate by the Christmas tree no less.
The kids made chains to help count down the days
They each got a couple things but the big gift this year was a new puppy - we named her mjinga - jina for short which means "silly" in Swahili. We learned it from our friens Efu and Laurel when we overheard Efu calling his son Kahlil that - and the name stuck. So far she is a pretty good puppy.
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