Merry Christmas !

 

these 2 destroyed their new toys in no time

Dawson got his Christmas a couple days later

Self Portraits

We love Kylee! She has new and fun ideas that she gets us to do, 

which is only fair considering all the new things we've gotten her to do! 

This night we finger-painted self-portraits.

Not that you couldn't tell who was who!

Gingerbread House time

 Getting together for gingerbread house and cookie decorating

This is Dawson claiming his half of the house

This is Morgan w her grinchy mischievous look

This is Jaxon dealing w Dawson 

This is Ethan 'helping'

Putting on the finishing touches

LOL.. the finished product

December bday Kids

 Their birthDAYS really do turn into birthDAYS. These two get celebrated for at least a week if not all month long 😉! For Morgan's birthday we went to conquer Black Butte, something she's been wanting to do for awhile. The weather was nice for a good hike and E ended up being off so celebration #1. We headed up the road but turned around d/t snowy, icy, narrow road - which later we discovered would have taken us to the top of the butte, forgoing the hike! We headed back down, found a parking spot and started hiking until we ran out of time BUT we're pretty sure we hiked just enough to find the hike to conquer the Butte, next time. We stopped at one of favorites breweries on the way back in town.

On Ethan's birthday we all got to go snowboarding at Hoodoo. Kylee and Dawson were able to come along, a first time for those two. It was a nice day w all kinds of weather- thankfully the snow storm waited until the end of the day.

Birthday presents, desserts and twister 

HOODOO

 Three kiddos heading up

Black Butte off in the distance

Me and my girl

Me and my boys

Taking a lunch break in the back of the truck because there are still covid restrictions to indoor dining 

Kylee learning to snowboard

Dawson learning to snowboard

Me and the youngest

Christmas Tree Hunting

 We headed to the Sisters Wilderness looking for a Christmas tree for our house and Ethan, Kylee and Morgan were searching for their own as well. It's a beautiful area and have always been happy w the trees we've found.

Mitch cut ours down

and Ethan cut the one the girls had thought was 'the one' for their home

It had dumped freezing rain the night before so all dirt roads up higher were a sheet of ice. The kids had come prepared w sleds but to our surprise there wasn't any snow yet. So they made the best of it and sledded down the ice roads!

This was as close to family pictures as it got this year. It's really hard to coordinate all schedules and all have a day off together

And a fire to warm up w  at the end of our day