Christmas in Missouri

We celebrated Christmas a little early this year. Chelsea, the kids, and I went to Missouri for a week to hang out with the fam and celebrate the holidays. My mom had lots of fun things planned to keep Karlee (and the rest of us) entertained. It was probably the busiest week we've ever had in Cape, and we had such a good time.

There's a new place in town, Discovery Playhouse. Not sure who had more fun...Karlee or my mom.

Karson is getting so big and smiley. I think these pictures are SO cute!

They had everything for a real store including the checkout. Pretty impressive.

Karlee and Ashley in the big firetruck

Bowling (see previous post)

Ashley and I took Karlee to the park. She didn't care that it was freezing out there.
Swimming at the gym. Karlee loved having the boys help her play basketball, and Karson was pretty content in the water.
Gingerbread house

Making sugar cookies
Opening presents. This extended through several days. The kids needed toys to play with so they opened theirs at the start of the trip. They had so many so we saved some for when the rest of us opened them later on. Those kids (and all of us really) are so spoiled but it's just so fun to buy them stuff.
Christmas clothes. They weren't super excited about the picture taking after church. They both look so cute and so grownup in these.

Karlee is kind of a stinker with pictures but does pretty well if you tell her to strike a pose. I just love her model shots.

Mickey party (more details to come later)

Karlee was really excited about the Mickey cake even though she doesn't really look like it

We had such a fun week at home. It's always nice to see the family and so sad to leave. I came back to 3 days of work and then a 2 week break. I love my job! I'll head down to Vegas to spend Christmas with Chelsea, Jeff, and the kids.