We all had a wonderful winter break, filled with downtime and time with family!
Making Gifts
The kids chose to make puzzle piece ornaments as their homemade gift this year. Summer was a rockstar planning out all the pieces and what color they should be so that everything fit together. Larkyn painted all of the pieces, and Colton was the hot glue gun master. They turned out cute!
School
I finished my LAST year of volunteering at an elementary Christmas party (tear!). It was fun to see Larkyn in her element, and the kids had a great time making graham cracker houses, guessing the taste of various candy canes (including Mac and cheese, kale, and ketchup flavored candy canes!), and exchanging gifts.
Kirkwood Christmas
We celebrated Kirkwood Christmas the weekend before Christmas. It was so fun to have everyone together! We enjoyed delicious prime rib from the Kirkwood kitchen as well as lots of Christmas cookies. We played games, sledded, attended all three boy cousins games (one soccer and two hockey), went to church, played instruments, and spent quality time together. Tiger even got a Santa costume and his own stocking, lol.
Thank you, Grandma and Grandpa K, for such a fun Christmas celebration, and for bringing GeeGee's ornament to her in Chicago!
Snow and Tiger Fun
Tiger's "will you play fetch with me and my mouse" look
Tiger's igloo
Enjoying being under the bed
Stare down with Daddy. (Asking, can I come outside and help you smoke the meat? Pleeeeeaaaasssee???)
"I guess my people like me to wear this costume. It's not so bad, really. "
Annual Christmas cookie neighborhood caroling night
Christmas Eve
Our Christmas Eve was filled with shopping (the kids like to pick out gifts for everyone), church, spaghetti, our annual graham cracker houses, and new PJ's! We also were able to snag an eye appointment for Larkyn who has been having lots of headaches. Sure enough, she needed glasses. This was the winning pair (which will arrive with her correct prescription in 7-10 days). Grateful for an answer on how to stop those pesky daily headaches!
Christmas Morning
Colton asked if he could wake us up with Christmas carols! It was a fun way to wake up!
Annual Christmas morning story reading....with the kids acting out the story with the Little People Nativity. They love doing this every year! This year Tiger played the role of King Herod, lol.
Tiger LOVES the new pet carrier backpack Larkyn got that folds into a little space for him and crawls in just to enjoy it often!
We ended the night with a family sleepover in the basement!
Tommerdahl Christmas
We were SO excited that Auntie Sarah, Owen, and Elton could fly to MN to celebrate Christmas! We headed up to Fergus the Fri-Mon after Christmas and enjoyed lots of cousin time, extended family time (along with a fun random gift game), our annual fondue night, an Escape Room in a box, play dough, games, snow fort building, and a day skiing!
Grandma and Grandpa got us shirts as we remember Uncle Jordan this Christmas. He wore the same shirt that the boys have, and the girls got the girl version. The saying on it is "People like people who like people" which was very Jordan.
How Dotson and Tiger "watched" the Vikings game!
Happy New Year!
We enjoyed New Year's Eve and New Year's Day at home, getting things done and enjoying some rest before starting back up with our activities, school, and work on Jan 2! We spend NYE eating delicious food and entertainment through endless riddles and dad jokes. We toasted to the new year over brunch on New Year's Day, and then headed off for some family rock climbing at Vertical Endeavors.
