The Keyes!: Merry Christmas!

We have read a lot of Christmas books together

Lyza decided that using her nebulizer as a microphone is much more fun

We decorated gingerbread houses

Henry was happy to watch us and eat

Here is our village

Drinking straight out of the bottle

Kim and the kids tackled a 550 piece puzzle together

Mason made a huge snake out of play dough

Lookin good Nixon

The Sunday morning before Christmas Nixon was just glowing

We got a few pictures together after church

This was probably the best one ;)

Henry did not want a picture with Mason

Lyza and Nixon each did some modelling

The kids were hard at work making Christmas cards for singing at the retirement home the next day

Sunday night the kids had a skating performance

The program was an hour and a half and this is all our kids did

The kids looked cute but I am not sure it was worth the kids sitting around in the cold for so long after they skated

Mason still looked happy afterward

They look cute together

The kids helped Kim make sugar cookies

Soooo many sprinkles from this little boy

Monday evening we went Christmas carroling at an assisted living facility with friends. It was really fun!

German pancake for breakfast the next morning

I took Henry and Nixon out for a walk to the river and there wasn't much of a river to look at

Nixon got to bring a camera along so he immediately began photographing the cutest subject he could find

I did find a pretty view

We have checked everything off of our Christmas bucket list

Playing Skip-Bo together on Christmas Eve Day was lots of fun

Christmas Eve dinner together

We attempted to act out the Christmas story together and had a fun time

What a cute bunch

Lyza and Kim also put on a wonderful piano performance. Lyza wasn't feeling 100% but did a great job. Kim should have practiced that second song a little more ;)

We watched The Littlest Angel together

Left some cookies and notes for Santa

Santa came!

Lyza didn't sleep very well and was ready to get started on presents

Lyza and Nixon were first to go through their boots

Cool sword

Christmas morning cuddles with Mama

Kim and I got to look through our boots (thanks for taking the picture Lyza)

Here are some of the highlights from opening gifts:

The kids got coupon books again this year and as you can see, Nixon was thrilled

He also got a drone

The drone in action

And walkie talkies

Lyza got some cute stuffies

Lyza started reading her new Minecraft book right away

Nice new hat

Henry eventually woke up and checked out his boot

He loved this toy

New dress shirts for daddy

Nixon got the coolest wolf pajamas

Lyza made us an awesome Christmas decoration

Henry helped himself to breakfast

Mason was the last to wake up

A little flashlight!

And Spider Man web shooters

Henry had some help with this big gift

A shopping cart

The kids got some really nice gifts from their Aunt Ashley

And toothbrushes! Lyza's letter to Santa asked for a new toothbrush ;)

Kinetic sand

Lyza and Nixon each used some of their own money to buy each other a present at the school Santa's workshop. They ended out buying each other the same thing, haha