The Days After Christmas

We are currently having our first snow day of 2017! The kids only went back to school for 2 whole days before they had to cancel. Oh well, we were all for it! It was pretty difficult getting back into the swing of things this week with the alarm clock going off at 6 am. We are eagerly awaiting the white stuff to get here this afternoon. I "might" have bought a sled earlier in the week hoping the forecast just might be in our favor for once. We'll see if it happens or not.

 

Anyway, I wanted to add a few pictures from our week after Christmas. It took a few days for us to get re-energized after the big holiday. The boys received so many building sets that they spent the first several days in their rooms working like busy bees. I'm talking 8+ hours building legos. And they loved every second of it. I tried offering to take them places to get them out of the house, but they were not interested at all! So, I used that time to put Christmas away. It was nice to have those several days with nothing going on!

 

Of course, when they finished each set, they brought it out to the den where it spent the week. I wish I had taken a picture. It was insane.

We finally got out and went to the zoo one day.

 Hudson got a slack line for Christmas and we put it up in the back yard. It has been a huge hit, for ALL of us! It's been really fun.

 We took the boys bowling for the first time one day. That was an experience! :)

We did have a fun time, but Harrison beat Hudson both rounds and Hudson was pretty upset about it. The first round, we let Harrison use the little ramp thing, but then we made him actually bowl the second time, thinking that Hudson would for sure win that time, but Harrison still beat him. Oh well, gotta learn sometime!

The boys had buddies come play. This was the only picture I got, but they had a lot of fun.

We spent New Years Eve with friends! We went over early and watched the Alabama game, and were home in time to toast to the new year and promptly go to bed, well before midnight. And that was fine by us!

 I took the boys to see the movie Sing. It was such a cute movie! We all loved it!

The boys also got to visit McWane with Migi and Pops, but no pictures from that! They got there just in time to see the trains before the exhibit left for the year! It's their favorite time to go to McWane!

We had a great time off, but I think we were all ready to get back into our routine. We all just wish it didn't start so early in the morning! Clearly, we are not morning people!