Christmas #3 & #4

The flu bug hit us after Christmas #2.  Hayden started us off just a few hours after we had gotten home & Olivia rounded out the puke fest the next morning.  It was a fast moving bug for the kids, just like 6 hours & gone.  And somehow Logan & I have managed to avoid it.  {knock on wood}  Jeff started feeling icky as Christmas #3 came to a close on Saturday at Grandma GGs & missed our final Christmas, #4.  But luckily we managed to mostly all be in 1 piece for the brunt of our holiday adventures.

Pizzas, dips, cookies & presents at Grandma GGs.

 "Yes!!"  The last Rescue Bot Transformers the boys wanted!

 Love her surrounded by all these glittery presents.  We may be combing glitter out of our hair for weeks!!

 It was THIS much fun :)

 Batman Logan

 Hello Kitty Analeigh

 Hello Kitty Olivia

 Superman, "I've had too much Christmas," not so cooperative Hayden

 Ethan, Alex, Grandma GG, Hayden, Katie, Logan, Olivia, Analeigh, Molly, Brent, Jeff

Not too bad :)

 Livi the singing queen got her very own microphone!!

Christmas #4 at Great Grandma & Grandpa's is lacking of photos from my camera & exists only as stolen Facebook pictures from Molly.  As somehow, my camera's memory card was discovered to be COMPLETELY empty.  And I have no idea how this happened.  I have yet to do anything other than google.com research about how to try to restore them, as my mind isn't ready to deal with this & google.com has me worried its going to cost me a pretty penny.

 Chances R!  Yum!

 The boys being silly with Molly while we finished eating.

 We spent the afternoon playing volleyball, basketball & remote control cars in the high school gym & then headed to Grandma & Grandpa's house for one last present of the year.  

 Jessie!!

 Livi's Jessie spent the rest of the day playing & snuggling with all Grandma's other dolls.  

Christmas, as always, was fast, wild, busy, full of ups, downs, returns & too much food.  It was fun but I am honestly so ready for the chaos to be done & slow down & enjoy life a little more as we ring in 2014!

We spent the 31st playing, cleaning & taking down lights & trees. And I completely forgot until after our trees were undecorated, that we did NOT take a family picture in front of a tree this year.  Its kind of tradition, but between busy kids & the flu, we forgot.  So someone please keep your tree up until I feel like curling my hair again please.

I somehow rolled/sprained/hurt my ankle cleaning and after I spent 45 minutes in so much pain we almost took a trip to urgent care, we ended up all accidentally napping from 7-9 the evening of the 31st, so the kids got to be up to watch the ball drop live in NY.  They don't at all get what "New Year" means, but oh well.  Happy New Year!