Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve morning we headed from the Burke's to the Lanz's to continue our Christmas celebration. All 18 of us had a fun filled day at G'ma and G'pa's house together. The adults are now outnumbered with 10 grand kids! Very festive!


With 10 grand kids, that amounts to a lot of presents! G'ma and G'pa still insist on buying for everyone, but the kids draw names. The adults do a fun gift exchange every year. This year's theme was board games. We took home Connect-4 Launchers and Qwirkle.

Henry saw his Magna Doodle in the bag and went for it. He went a little out of turn. Then decided to put himself in the large bag. Silly boy!

Let the football and wrestling matches begin! Loaded up on cookies, time to burn some energy. Thank goodness for the grandparents big open basement! I don't think anyone of us made it to midnight on New Year's Eve. We were all exhausted from the past few very busy days. Happy New Year!

It's a New Year, time to thank God for all that we've been given. We spent the day with our family at church.

After church and naps, we headed over to U. Jeff's and A. Darlene's for more play time and dinner. The girl cousins: Jayde, Brooklyn and Breanne always giggling together. They have to really stick together since they are so outnumbered! Kellan pinning down Jayde for a smooch! Get her Kellan!!

Kellan was in awe at the amount of Lego's his cousin Devan had.

Several rounds of air hockey happened. Kellan's putting on his tough and serious playing face.

It was a very cold and snowy day on Monday, so we stayed put at G'ma and G'pa's house. G'pa built a very warm and cozy fire so we could play a good game of Sorry. This was Kellan's first time playing the game and he loved it! We all had our fake crying Sorry voices down pat by the end.
Another super visit home to Ohio. Always love the excitement in the boys voices when they know we are heading to see their cousins and grandparents. It's always hard to leave knowing it's going to be awhile before we see them again.