After everyone arrived, we started a gingerbread mini-cake decorating contest. Everyone got to select a partner to work with. Grant picked his creative Oma...
Opa and Oma Wie picked each other...
Opa Berg went solo... but, I think a partner would've voted against that scary knife! Poor little gingerbread!
Grant and Oma's final design...
William and his daddy's final design... (oops, I think we had a malfunction on Rudolf's nose!)
Aunt Beth and Uncle Tim's surfing gingerbread...
Gabrielle and Claire working hard...
Oma and Opa finally finished...
We posted these 6 contest entries on Facebook for everyone to vote on and the winner was #5 created by Aunt Beth and Uncle Tim!
1-Oma & Opa Wie
2-Opa Berg
3-Uncle Peter & William
4-Grant & Oma Berg
5-Aunt Beth & Uncle Tim (The Winners!)
6-Gabrielle & Claire
Yay, it looks like Rudolf's nose got fixed...
I asked everyone to get together for a family picture...
Then, Aunt Beth took this one so I could get in...
Mommy's side of the family...
Daddy's side of the family... (unfortunately, Uncle Eric and his family weren't able to make it because they were on their way to Oklahoma to spend Christmas with Aunt Alisha's family.)
Ready for more presents!
Claire and William served as our little elves and handed out the presents...
The boys' newest obsession... Thomas the Train!
I think the boys wished everyday could be like this! One morning, a couple of days after Christmas, we went upstairs to get the boys out of their cribs and one of them asked us, "Are the presents ready?"
They love their new tricycles! Luckily, we had several warm days after Christmas so we took several morning rides to the park.
But, today, our house was the park!
Pop a wheelie!
That night, the boys wore their cute Christmas pjs from Aunt Alisha... and mommy's headband! (The headband was their idea!). Here's Bryce...
And, Ben hugging his new pillow pet...
I asked the boys to hug each other, and this is what we got...
The boys got a little more playtime before going to bed...
Really, mom, haven't you taken enough pictures today?!
Bryce wanted to take his new McQueen and Mater on a ride...
Checking to make sure they're still on...
They kept falling off, so he decided to just hold them...
Every time I see Ben with his big Buzz Lightyear, I think about him saying, "Wow, that's the coolest toy ever!" :)
To infinity and beyond!
Evan and I thought about crossing out Andy's name on the bottom of Buzz's boot and writing Ben/Bryce instead. :)
As Chippy the Elf would say, this was an end to an "extravaganzalorious" Christmas!
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