Christmas this year was so much fun and as you will read in the posted below my family did a lot of fun thing to start some new family traditions. My whole family was together and healthy and I feel like I couldn't have asked for more.
Kason loved his Tribot (a fancy robot) and his K'nex Roller coaster and Ferris Wheel.
Kenzie.. well read on for that experince.
I hope everyone had a Happy & Safe New Years.

I know that you all thought that come Christmas morning when Kenzie saw the jeep she would forget about the traumatizing experience with Santa. You were ALL WRONG!!
Kason came into the room around 7:00 and had already made the trip upstairs to make sure Santa had made it to our house. I had him go into the living room and nicely wake up his sister and let her know that Santa had come.
Ben ended up trying to get Kenzie to wake up and he said the fatal words "Santa came" this was the beginning of the end. Kenzie sat straight up and began to whale and scream. She was terrified!! I got the whole thing on tape if there are not believers. She probably screamed for a good 10 minutes before she calmed down and realized she was staring right at her Barbie Jeep.
The crying stopped and .........

I was unable to remove Kenzie for the Jeep for the rest of the day. It was a success. Thank heavens.

On Christmas Eve my Grandma Sparks gives all the Great Grandkids new pajamis. The kids love to get in their jamies and wait for Santa.
These are all the Great Grandkids short 4 kids.

This was a much easier task for my Grandma when there was only her 7 Grandchildren. Boy has our family grown.

My little Kenzie and my cousins little Skylie with their matching PJ's. Too CUTE! As you can see they have on their princess shoes to match there pajamas.

My dad is the greatest! When I was a little girl our family tradition was to make the trip up to Banida (a little town in Idaho) and stay the night Christmas Eve at my Great Grandma Gregersens house. This is where both my parents grew up. My uncle Miles has a farm and we would go his barn and see Joesph and Mary and little Baby Jesus. This was something I still remember today and when I think of my Christmas' I always remember taking a trip to the barn to see Baby Jesus.
This year my Dad wanted to recreate this for his Grandchildren. He went to alot of work and I was so happy to see that my kids loved it as much I did.
Thanks Dad for making memories for my Kids.

Kenzie taking a closer look at baby Jesus. This is so preious.

Kason finally got to try out his new snowmobile. It worked great on the roads and the sidewalks but, it was not tough enough to barrel through all the new powder. Kason was content to just ride it around the streets. (by the way I did make him put his helmet on to ride the snowmobile)

Can you believe all the SNOW we got hammered with on Christmas night?! I thought for sure I was going to be snowed in at Grandmas house. The next day after all the snow blowing and shoveling it made a perfect day to play in the snow. All the hills of snow were perfect for sledding. Kenzie is definitely my outside girl. She was frozen solid but, insisted on staying outside sledding.