Aubrey's new bike video

New Years eve

For the past three years, since we have been living in this house, we have gone across the street to our friends house for New Years eve.  It is pretty handy to be so close to home and kiddos come and play too.  This year they planned a murder mystery for us to play.  It was super fun!  I haven't participated in one since high school when a girlfriend had one for her birthday party.  It was a fun evening with friends and some social interaction since we had been hanging around the house most of the week.  They had some fun stick on mustaches so the boys put some on for a picture.  We all had a great night, thanks for having us Carringtons!!

New Years day we slept in since we all made it to midnight and then had a quite day at home.

Aubrey enjoying some Christmas candy, unfortunately he wasn't as delicious

Christmas break

For Christmas break this year the kids were off school, Jeremy was off work, and I didn't have any kiddos to watch so we spent a lot of time together just relaxing and watching way too much football!  It was nice to have some time where we didn't have much on the calendar and could just hang out.  The boys, all three of them, played with some of their new video games and Aubrey played with all her new dolls and toys. 
The boys were signed up to play Holiday Hoops basketball and Hayden enjoyed working on his skills and playing some games.  Nile went to first day but Jeremy didn't let him do much because he was wheezy and sounded pretty bad.  I took him to the doctor that evening and he though it was RSV.  We headed to Wal-Mart to buy some Mucinex and a nebulizer.  The next day the doctor called with the test results and it wasn't RSV, just a bad virus but we were to continue with the same treatment.  By Wednesday he was sounding much better so we decided to let him play in the last day of Holiday Hoops. 
We also celebrated our nieces 11th birthday with supper at Happy Joes.  Since Nile wasnt supposed to have dairy we grabbed him a Subway sandwich to eat with us.  So convenient that they are right next door to each other!   After supper the kids played some of the games for a little while and Nile hit the jackpot on one game.  Then they picked their prized and we had some ice cream cake.

Nile doing a breathing treatment

Aubrey snoozing on the couch after her bath

Someone hit the jackpot!

Christmas 2014

Christmas Eve at my parents house

Aubrey and her new doll Lucy

my UA Alma Mater shirt!

the boys wearing their new Pella state champ football shirts and playing Wii, and Nile wearing his new stocking hat

Christmas morning at home after opening presents

Christmas afternoon with Jeremy's side at our house

This year we went to my parents house on Christmas eve to spend the day together.  My brother was home from college and my grandma came over too.  The kiddos got some BIG presents this year.  Hayden got a new bike, his old one was traded in since he has out grown it.  Aubrey got a bike too, she loves it and cant wait for the weather to warm up so she can ride more.  We also got a basketball hoop to mount on the garage.  I know this will get a lot of use in the years to come.  The boys already love playing basketball out in the driveway. 
We decided not to attend our church's Christmas eve service this year because the kids always get way to sleepy or fall asleep and they are getting too big for us to carry.  I really enjoy this service so hopefully in a year or so we will be able to start attending again.
Christmas morning we woke up to see what Santa had brought the kids under the trees in their rooms and then I got ready a little before we opened presents downstairs.  We had some cinnamon rolls for breakfast and the kids got dressed and played with their new presents.  Jeremy's parents and sister and her family came over for lunch and a few more presents.  Our big present from his parents was the trip to Florida so we each got a little something and had fun playing games, eating, and chatting.  We had such a great trip to Florida and Shauna made a book for Cathy with pictures so it was fun to look at it and reminisce, even though it was only a few weeks before.