The Penrod Page: December and New Years

I love December because of the holiday spirit leading up to Christmas, Christmas eve and day, our anniversary, and new years eve! And all the snow that makes it feel extra Christmasy!

All of November and half of December were full of Carson's soccer games twice a week!

Christmas Pjs pic!

I ordered canvas pics of the twins for their room! So excited with how they turned out!

Making Christmas candy for a Christmas sock party--girls night out

The twins turned 2 months on the 3rd

Carson got invited to a Christmas party which included Santa and swimming! We also had our ward party on the 9th.

I took this pic of our backyard one evening after a big snowfall.

I love this pic of these two! Many days were spent watching snow fall while watching Christmas movies by the fire--yes, bliss!

This was a very different Christmas for us. My uncle Brian passed away on December 8th and Julie (see 2 posts before) passed away on the 15th. So it was a very somewhat somber time, but we made the best of it. We headed to Utah on the 20th to spend the funeral and Christmas eve and day with Keith's family. We stayed with Keith's aunt and uncle.

The funeral was the day before Christmas eve. Christmas Eve we went out to Olive Garden for Denise's birthday. We also did some last minute shopping. Then we had a big Christmas Eve dinner, complete with the nativity story, opening gifts from his aunt and uncle, a pinata, Denise's birthday cheesecake and a Christmas movie.

Chillin on Christmas Eve

Christmas Day we opened presents then went to church. After church we had a big dinner over at Keith's grandma's with all his cousins, aunts etc...and opened presents from his Grandma.

Keith and Aaron playing pie face-- aaron won.

Our little fam on Christmas day

Grandma and Grandpa Penrod with all their grandkids.

The day after Christmas we headed to Boise for New Years! We stayed with my sister Nikki and her family for a week.

Tyson, Brynlee and Brecka meeting Cole and Ayla for the first time.

Monday evening when we got there we had a birthday dinner for my sister Shae at Idaho Pizza Company. Tuesday we went sledding at my mom's. I was pretty bummed out I didn't get to see a lot of everyone because so many were sick!

Wednesday was our anniversary, we went to Chili's for lunch (my request) then took the kids to Chuck E Cheese (well only Carson played the games haha) and met my brother Jared and his four kids there. Thursday my sister Nikki and I did some shopping. Friday we went over to my brother Jared's for dinner and cake and ice cream for his 31st birthday. Saturday Keith took Carson to the Boise Aquarium and met a couple of my nieces there with their dad, later we had a big New Years Eve party at Nikki's house with lots of good food, games, laughs, just dance, and chatting. The twins kept us up till midnight so we rang in the New Year by feeding the twins! yay! lol. (We missed some of my sisters who were sick or had sick kids.) Sunday was church then we headed Idaho Falls and stayed the night at Misti and Marcus', then Monday we headed back to Casper, let's just say it was so good to see family but I don't want to do that drive with twins for a looooonnnnng time! 22+ hours roundtrip! ugh.