The DeWaal Family: The Holidays

A little late, AS ALWAYS!!! But here are some of our fun moments from around the Holidays last year...

We took Jayden on his first road trip and went to stay with Nick's family in their Summerlin condo (Vegas) for Thanksgiving weekend.

Here we are outside of the Red Rocks Hotel, just down the street from their place...

It was nice to get away to some warmer weather! The kids were pretty good travelers (helped that we had a bigger car and a DVD player in it this time!)

We ate at the Red Rocks Buffet for our Thanksgiving Dinner!! (for the 2nd year)

Jayden drinking independently from a cup at 6 months old!

Saw this little Toys R Us mascot at one of the outlet malls.

M&M Factory!

Family Christmas pics!

(in front of Nick's parent's lovely trees!)

Rec Center!... Jayden's 1st time swimming! (6 1/2 months old)

Playing in the leaves!... It was a cold wintery day by the time we had leaves in our yard and we finally raked them up. Nick thought I was torturing the poor boy by taking him out there just for a picture! :) He was too cold to barely smile so it didn't last long, but Madison had a blast stomping in the leaves!

Christmas Eve!!... Christmas Eve Nick's fam came to our house in the morning for breakfast and to watch the Chief's game. Look how cute these two are in their little Chief's outfits!

Christmas Eve we went up to the DeWaal's for dinner and Madison helped decorate her first gingerbread house! Oupie assembled the house and she had fun with the frosting and candy.

The finished piece!

Maire's friend gave her these 2 cute matching zebra aprons for Christmas!

Christmas Day! at the Tondevold's house

Opening presents always takes awhile with all of us plus 5 kids!

Cousins!

Taylor & Shauna are expecting!! Yay, we will have a new nephew in July!
They came for a visit from Arizona just before Christmas and announced the exciting news by leaving out a little family of 3 mnt dews! haha (Taylor's favorite) Nick noticed it and caught on, but it took everyone else awhile to figure it out. Yay, so excited for them!

Ice Skating!!...While Taylor & Shauna were in town we hung out and did some fun things, like ice skating!! It's been awhile since we've gone (since we were dating actually). We took Maddie on the ice for her first time and she actually didn't do too bad after a few times around! We went another time a few weeks later.