Christmas in Washington

This year we spent Christmas at Brad's parents. We left the 23rd and traveled all day. The kids did really good and the roads we decent except we had lots of fog. We arrived that night as well as all of brads siblings and there families. Christmas eve and Christmas day was full of playing and baking and enjoying each others company. It was fun to see all the grand kids there together. There are 13 grand kids so far all under the age of 7 (Ryker being the oldest). So there was plenty of crying and learning how to share, especially for Brynlee. It's hard when your brothers usually give in to you all the time!!!! I swear she went through a stinker stage while we were there, she tested Brad and I the whole time. Brynlee and Caylee especially had a love/hate relationship. Brynlee is obsessed with shoes and found Caylee's particularly cute, Bryn would put them on, Caylee would want them back which would make bryn want them even more so she would do it quickly with a smirk and run from Caylee smiling that she was wearing the shoes. Caylee would run after her crying. I swear this happened 4-5 times a day. Sorry Caylee we hope you will forgive her. But other times that would be hugging and playing together. Anyways back to Christmas. The kids loved doing the nativity and singing songs. Christmas morning was crazy but so much fun. Lots of cute girl toys and really cool boy toys. The kids were very entertained for a long time. The boys each got a remote control truck, which they loved racing and making jumps for in the garage. Ryker got a rip stick and mastered that over Christmas too. Grandma and Grandpa had lots for the kids to do. The kids really enjoyed the bouncy houses set up in the shop. It was a nice escape to burn off lots of there energy.
Sunday was Blakes farewell. He did a fantastic job on his talk. After church lots of Brads cousins were all visiting with there families, so they had a big Nielson family lunch in the shop. Lots and lots of people were there. Ryker couldn't get over that he was related to all those people. It was really nice to see everyone that we hadn't seen in a long time.
Everyone left Monday morning except us and Greg and Brookes family. We celebrated Conner's birthday and new years eve there too.