Christmas Update - Yeah we are a little late!

It's crazy how long it has been since Christmas already. Well, if you don't mind - I will give a little update. Christmas was fabulous as usual. We had a Christmas get-together with the Keslers a few days before Christmas and had a blast. 

While dinner was being prepared and what not, my older brother Cameron got all the kids pumped about Hot Wheels and the endless possibilities with the tracks. Unfortunately everyone in town was out of the tracks so we had to make do with the one pack we found. 

My mom has a few snow globes and Koen and his cousin Ripken sat and watched them for hours. It was hilarious!

We then had the traditional Nativity story and since there are too many kids and not enough parts, my dad decided to have them hold nativity pieces instead. It worked out great!

My mom and dad like to do something special for the grandkids every year and this year they made these temple blocks for the kids to display in their rooms. Great idea! Austin has his on display and has followed Grandma's counsel of "looking at it everyday!"

This year we decided to switch things up and let the grandkids pick names of one of the cousins to buy a present for. They LOVED it! Austin had Cooper and got him his favorite baseball team figurine.

Koen's face is hilarious! Quinnleigh had him and got him a sports potato head! PERFECT!

Lexie had Jaxon and also got him a sports potato head! He loves it!

Kaia had Austin and boy was he in heaven with more race track and cars. The timing was perfect as well seeing as we could only find one pack of track earlier that day!

Jaxon had Maycee and made her a necklace and some earrings. He worked so hard on them. :)

Christmas Eve and Christmas Morn were spent at the Ulrich household. We started off the evening with a lucious dinner and then proceeded to the Nativity. Jaxon got to be Baby Jesus - he was a rather large baby though. He really liked the gifts the wisemen brought though.

Scott's face is hilarious! Is that forced?

That night the boys got to open their Christmas jammies and they were thrilled - can you tell? Koen was sick over Christmas which was a huge bummer because he is so hilarious to watch open presents. He fell asleep early on Christmas Eve and then we had to wake him up for Christmas morn. He then fell asleep while we were opening presents. He was miserable. Poor guy!

This was Jaxon's first Christmas experience and he was pumped! (Ok he didn't really know what was going on, but oh well!)

Koen is slightly obsessed with the Mater Tall Tales and for his birthday was given some of the monster trucks. Austin got him the Mater monster truck to add to the collection. He loves it!

Scott's big item was a guitar. He asked for one last year, but I didn't think he was serious. When it showed up on his list again this year I found out he really was serious! He was so excited and hasn't gone a day without playing it. He even knows about 5 songs now. He is doing great and picking it up fast!

Do you think Austin likes cars? He got a whole trick track set and now we can connect all of his tracks together and make a huge track.

I finally got some Duke gear to root on the Duke Blue Devils in basketball this year! I love it! Go Duke!\

We had a great Christmas and are so grateful we were able to spend it with so much family! We are so blessed and so grateful for all that we have. Thanks so everyone who made this Christmas so special! Hope you all had a great one too! Happy New Year!