Christmas week

This year was a very emotional year for the family with Laurie being gone and loving Christmas so much. We were lucky enough to have Charsty, Kira, Aurora and Shontel to come and visit us for the holiday season. We did miss O gosh Josh though. We spent most of the week at Grandpa Madsen's house enjoying many dinner's, talks and lots of laughs as a family. Watching the cousins play and enjoy spending time together. Laurie loved watching and listening to her grand kids giggle and laugh and be kids.
On Dec 21st we went and saw the temple lights which we do every year and this time Jay came with us and the kids loved it. We did ginger bread houses with Charsty, Kira, Shontel and Jerica we also had Ashleigh and Jackson with us on December 23rd before that we had Kenzie's birthday party which we were suppose to go sledding but there was no snow so we just had a little get together at our house and had snacks and cake and watched her open her presents.
On Christmas Eve we spent time at my parents house and had dinner and watched the kids open there presents and they enjoyed all the stuff that they received and loved giving there presents that they made, a reindeer goody bag. That night when we got home the kids got to open one present from us which is pajamas Kenzie got Hannah Montana Jammie's and Braxton got toy story 3 Jammie's which they put on right a way. That night we tracked Santa on the Internet and the kids saw him and daddy told them he is so close, so they jumped up and said lets go to bed. So I tucked them into bed and laid by them for a while and we were so quiet that we heard Santa bells so they quickly closed there sweet eyes and went to bed.