Christmas in Iowa

This year we spent Christmas in Iowa with Nathaniel's family. We braved the roads and snow and made it up there on Christmas Eve afternoon. That evening was spent playing games and eating Christmas Eve dinner. Aunt Kaisha and Uncle Jake were back from Florida so we were excited to spend some time with them! Christmas morning Santa came for a visit. The kids were shocked and excited to see Santa had come to pay them a special visit. He brought them stockings and Christmas ornaments! After present opening we spent most of Friday lounging around and moving from room to room grazing on food. Jack and Bella also enjoyed watching Madagascar while we were there. A couple of weeks ago Jack and Bella went up and spent the weekend with Grandma and Grandpa and sat through an entire movie in the movie theater. Very exciting. Jack told us that he watched TV. HAHA!
Saturday morning the kids got to go out and sled in some of the beautiful Iowa snow before we headed back home. When we got home, we had our own family Christmas here where Jack's highlight was his new "Mack" truck (from the movie Cars), Doc (also from Cars) and Optimus Prime. Bella fell in love with her new Barbie, nail polish and little laptop they each got. We've been working really hard on counting and singing the alphabet and these little laptops have lots of fun games to help the kids learn more! Bella already said "S" this morning and pointed to it on the screen. Go Bella! Jacks counting to 11 now without a second thought. I can't believe how big they are getting!
We hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas and has a fantastic New Year. We're so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family in our lives!!!
I have added a lot of updates to the blog today so make sure to scroll down and read them all. This holiday season was just so hectic and trying to keep up proved nearly impossible!