Christmas 2019 - Taylor's

First - the weather has been in the 40s and 50s the last few days!!  Holy cow, that's been amazing... and so much easier on my nerves when we travel!  ha.

Friday night we wrapped up our week... the kids had good days - celebrating their holiday parties with their friends and teachers and Kayson's 5th graders had an assembly for the school - singing and band.  He said it was fun.

Friday night we stayed in... ordered pizza and put together the gingerbread houses (with some fighting and crying!)... and got ready for the weekend.  

Saturday morning, we slept in.  Kids slept til about 7:45...  and we started our day - prepping for the weekend, packing up, etc... got on the road about 10ish to head to Creston.  We instantly hopped in to the cousins playing and we just enjoyed the day.  JeanAnn, Martina and I went up town to a cute boutique so that was fun...  the kids played... including the boys playing outside for hours!  Rhett rested...  it was just a really good day.  

Then it was present time...  always spoiled.  The kids enjoyed themselves, and the best gift for Kayson was AirPods.  He was thrilled and it was pretty sweet.  The adults enjoyed opening gifts too... and then we just ordered pizza and hung out.  Joni came and visited for a bit too...  feeling sad for her, and just heartbroken.  Still can't believe Bill isn't with us.

Sunday:
We hung out in the morning a little...  with the chaos of trying to get everything packed up, ourselves ready, etc...  we got out the door about 10:30 - drove to Diagonal to the cemetery to see Papa Dick and Grandma Ann.  Again, weather was great... so we stood there for a little bit.  

On to the farm...  everyone was there and we had such a good time.  Great food, great gift, and so many laughs.  Even tho Bill wasn't there...  I do feel that we made the best of it, and Joni laughed and enjoyed herself, but I know we all had some tears...  I know I did at least.  The boys played outside again, almost all day...  Cora and Lanny did pretty well too.   It was a great little day. 

Winner of the cheeseballs!

Coloring party!

My $5 grab bag shirt - super women!!

That's one lucky Grandma Janis

We got on the road about 6ish... 

A blessed weekend with the Taylor's.  I still can't believe it's Christmas - the weather doesn't feel like it...  and just in general, it came so fast.  

Here's to a week off from work and just hanging out at home.  I'm really looking forward to the break.