Winter – Page 2 – Kotter Family

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

Pictures from February

Lucas getting a book signed by Gary Hogg, who did a presentation at his school

Lucas by the cake he decorated for pack meeting

He wanted his picture taken at Target with this display

After watching The Lego Batman movie on Presidents Day

Samuel got in on the action at his cousin’s birthday party. Warm up for his party I guess

Came upstairs after putting the kids to bed one night to see this raccoon eating the cat food. Our cat just sat there and watched him.

McKinley ready for Dr. Seuss day at school, with the hat her mom made her

Samuel likes to get up early but it’s always nice to snuggle up under a warm blanket

Basketball

Both McKinley and Lucas just got done with basketball for the year. They both enjoyed it and both did really good, especially as the season progressed.

Valentines Day

We didn’t do much for Valentines Day this year, but McKinley wanted to have fondue after dinner (traditional Papa Murphy’s heart pizza). We don’t have any sort of fondue set, so Kryssi just melted a few types of chocolate in jars in the crockpot.

Christmas Break

Kids really wanted to go to iJump, so we made a trip there one day

Christmas Eve

Tables all set up for Christmas Eve dinner

Pre-Christmas fun

Watching the primary kids sing at our ward Christmas party

Frosting and decorating our Christmas Trees

Samuel isn’t crawling yet but he rolls and scoots around. He ended up making his way over to the tree and started messing with the presents and ornaments

He actually ended up grabbing his own present and started trying to rip it. I guess being curious about your Christmas presents starts young!

We got our cat Grey a pet bed for Christmas and the kids couldn’t wait to give it to her. She instantly curled up in it and has loved it ever since. And she normally isn’t in the house but since we went through that cold spell where temperatures were in the negatives most of the day, she stayed in the mud room for those few days (but she is outside again now, though she’s not happy about it)

Snow

We got hit with a pretty big snowstorm this past Friday (biggest in a decade they said). They were predicting an inch or two of snow and we ended up with about 8 inches. We lost power at one point for a bit but luckily only for an hour or so.

The next morning we woke up and it was -18 outside, so we got tons of snow then really cold temperatures. School ended up being cancelled Monday because it was so cold, so the kids loved that. It has warmed up now but the roads are still pretty bad, because it isn’t warm enough yet to melt it.

I figured mom and dad would like these pictures, as I don’t think they’ll be seeing any snow for a while, or temperatures nearly this cold. We are happy though to have a white Christmas.

Recent Pictures

We got a little snow when we were in Utah for Thanksgiving and the kids were super excited, since we hadn't gotten any snow yet in Idaho — We got a little snow when we were in Utah for Thanksgiving and the kids were super excited, since we hadn’t gotten any snow yet in Idaho. We didn’t bring any of their snow items but they still wanted to go out and play.

Tried to get a picture our Christmas lights but my phone doesn't take pictures in the dark very well — Tried to get a picture of our Christmas lights but my phone doesn’t take pictures in the dark very well

Watching AFV Sunday night — Watching AFV like we normally do on Sunday night. The kids all wanted to snuggle together.

William was really excited to see Santa (until after, when Santa didn't give him a present and he had a meltdown) — William was really excited to see Santa (until after, when Santa didn’t give him a present and he had a meltdown)

Category: Winter

Christmas fun

Christmas decorating