Christmas 2019

Scott and I shared a quiet Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We went to the Romeros for a yummy meal and dessert. The kids arrived the next evening.

I picked up Joel and Molly at the rental car place as they drove from Molly’s family in Wisconsin. Leah, Dave, and the kids arrived just before that.

Hannah was unable to come but we did lots of FaceTiming with her, even streamed her up on the big screen. Kent is in Peru.

Our house is always filled with chaos, mess and lots of love when the kids are home. The boys were both completely enamored with Uncle Joel.

We did tons and tons of eating, including our traditional orange danish rolls, took turns cooking (genius!), hiked the Konza, looked at the Festival of Lights. And of course, opened gifts and stockings. Leah made Scott a picture of his Mom holding him when he was little.

Some fun moments were Emmet snuggling with me all night in my bed (he came to me scared and when I said I needed to sleep, he said,”but Emmet wants to talk…” then as soon as Scott came to bed, Emmet curled up to him and fell immediately asleep.). I also heard some soft snoring and discovered it wasn’t coming from Rex or Scott, it was Emmet!

Another fun moment was trying to teach Henry to wink.