Christmas with the Christensen's

We went to Grandpa Bill and G.G.'s for dinner on Christmas Eve. It is always so fun to see that part of Drew's family. All the great-grandkids got cute new jammies and some new toys too!

Drew and his Rexius cousins have had a picture taken like this mostly all their lives at Christmas.

We opened presents at Drew's parents' house after church. Here are Drew and Darcy opening a present.

This was probably Darcy's favorite present. She jumped on the bubble wrap while Case tried out her new bike.

After we opened presents we threw ourselves together and drove four hours up to this cabin at Priest Lake for the nest week.

This was the back of the cabin. So pretty!

I had to force Darcy to put her snow clothes on. She was kind of freaked out at first, but I'm glad I made her do it, because she ended up loving it outside in the snow. She was freaked out about riding the shovel at first too, but she eventually warmed up to it.

I was so amazed at how brave Case was. Nothing scared him!

Another example of how brave he was. Bryce slid him right off the porch on his shovel and he was happy to do it over and over.

He was also willing to ride down the hill on Bryce's back. Darcy didn't want to do any of that.

Case showed Darcy how to make a snow angel. I loved watching Darcy play with her cousins. I didn't manage to get any pictures of Miles somehow, but Darcy loved him too! She called them "my Case" and "my Miles."

Darcy got a taste of what it's like to have boys bigger than Ezra around. :)

Drew spent one day making a snow cave for the kiddos. There was a cave in the front and steps up to a slide on the back. I love this cute picture of Darcy and Case posing in the cave.

Darcy going up the stairs.

The slide.

We took Ezra out for a little while so we would use his snow clothes at least once.

Neil took a family picture for us out by the fort.

We went to the cabin to go snowmobiling. We managed to do a little, but unfortunately there wasn't very much snow, so we didn't get to do as much as we hoped we would. This was another thing I had to force Darcy to do. The noise of the snowmobiles scared her. She didn't end up loving it, but she did get through it alright. :)

Bryce, Kevin, and Drew went out for the first ride and Kevin ran into a fallen tree while he was looking down. He thinks he pulled his pec muscle. He had a good bruise to show for it.

Case and Darcy watching TV in our bed.

We played lots of UNO and the Dominos Mexican Train game.

Darcy struggled with nap time while we were there. She ended up falling asleep in the corner of the couch watching TV a couple days in a row.

We went for a drive to go see the lake one day and it was really beautiful.