Holiday – Page 2 – Kotter Family

February Fun

Author Gary Hogg visited Lucas’ school a few weeks back (something he does every year). He holds an assembly and then does a writing workshop with the 4th graders. He chooses a few of his favorite stories that were written during this workshop (kids have 5 minutes to write a short story) and he holds a family presentation that night to read those and discuss some other things about writing.

Lucas’ story was chosen, so we ran from his basketball practice to the presentation. He was pretty proud of being able to go up front and have his story read, and he did a great job on it.

Valentines Day

Found this giant card at Walmart and knew I had to get it for Kryssi

Candy bar bouquet, the only good bouquet

I made these heart shaped chicken hand pies for dinner

Christmas

Notice Sam found some chips Santa brought Kryssi and had to have some

Kaitlin helping McKinley with her new sewing machine

Christmas Eve Fun

Opening one present on Christmas Eve. Made them wait until after church

Playing some games at Paul & Julie’s house

Lucas and Jared trying to distract the throwers

Sam wasn’t scared at all and approached Santa on his own

More Pre-Christmas Fun

Sam likes sitting on the stairs and having other people sit with him

Checking out the ginger bread houses at the museum

Early Christmas Celebration

Kryssi’s brother Kyle got married mid-December, so her family decided to do some Christmas stuff then, since everyone was home. We did the traditional sibling present exchange as well as acting out the nativity.

Christmas fun

Visiting Santa at Cabelas. Was a lot better then our normal visit at the mall. Much shorter line; they had cookies and coloring pages while we waited; and they printed a picture off for free.

The nativity that was done at our Ward party. Lucas got to be a shepherd

Christmas decorating

We normally wait until the Monday after Thanksgiving (our FHE activity) to get out all our Christmas decorations and put them up, especially the tree. William was anxious this year to do it sooner, so we ended up decorating the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Playing with some of the Christmas stuff we got out

Sam wanted to help, though it was mostly him wanting to climb on the stool

Utilizing a stool to get decorations at all levels of this big tree

Sam definitely is a lot more handsy than our other kids have been. Everyday I’m putting ornaments back on the tree

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year, we stayed here in Shelley. We had Thanksgiving dinner with Kryssi’s family. They invited a lot of her dad’s side (some people that I didn’t even know) and so we ate at the church, since we had a group of about 50. It was a good meal, though always chaotic with that many people.

We didn’t do much else during the break. Went and saw Coco as a family on Friday, which has always been a tradition since I was younger, to go see a movie over the Thanksgiving holiday. But other then that and a little shopping, we mostly were at home, enjoying spending time with each other.

Category: Holiday