CHRISTMAS 2015

Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

What a wonderful time of year! We're so lucky to be with our family for Christmas and enjoy each other's company. Christmas Eve Kort had work until 4. She works at Shaw's - taking after us!! haha While she was at work we wrapped presents and lounged around the house.

Kraw and Kay took pictures with their gingerbread house. 

Here she is up close and personal. Lol.

Our gingerbread house village.

Kraw just had to get this shot. 

This lil boy fell asleep on our bed hehe

KRAW the lil jokester

70 degrees on Christmas Eve and this sunset? Okay haha. Not gonna lie we were dreaming of a white Christmas. Not too worried though we will definitely be going back to snow. :))

When Kort got home from work we had our Christmas Eve prime rib dinner. We looked forward to this all day long!

After dinner we made sugar cookies!

Good thing we had Cathy to help us.

First time in like 10 years that Kyle helped...

KRAW.

OH and the black sweater lights up!! It was on earlier in the day but just forgot to turn it back on :(

Kort going to great heights for her photography.

Time to frost the cookies!

... and eat them.

Prepare yourself for our annual Christmas photo-shoot. Feel free to scroll past.

YAY we got one with mom!

Lol. Used the self-timer on Kort's camera to get a family picture.

Later that night we opened up our Christmas jammies!

We had some fun before going to bed.

Sharing a bed is always fun. Especially on Christmas Eve when you stay up until 2 AM. Also, it's fun when you're mom joins in on the fun and you talk about how your gums are bleeding and don't know why.

CHRISTMAS - AT LAST!

We finally fell asleep and woke up around 8 or was it 9? Probably would have slept later if we didn't have other people wanting us to wake up hehe.

After looking at the gifts from Santa we went to the Christmas tree where Kraw aka our elf distributed the presents to be opened.

The tree looked a little different this year - it just gets better and better.

As we were opening presents we designated this Christmas as Year of the Socks. You can never have too many I suppose.

Love Kort and also love wearing pjs all day!

After opening presents we ate breakfast. We had pancakes with real maple syrup {from NH !}, sausage, bacon, eggs, and hot cocoa! Kort made crock-pot hot chocolate and let me tell you it was scrumptious.

More selfies of Kort and Kay because Christmas.

#blessed

We both got an iPad from the rents and boy are we lucky!

As mentioned previously it was the Year of the Socks but it was also the Year of the iPad. Kyle and Cathy got one to share and mom got one for her bday!

Another great Christmas in the books.

K & K ♥

Home for the Holidays

Looking back on the first few weeks of December we were focused a lot on finals and finishing the semester. Kels had an easy finals week this semester and was done the Monday they started. Kay experienced food poisoning and then so much pressure in her ears she felt like she was on an {airplane} ride of a lifetime. LOL. that required two trips to the doctor to figure out. Thankfully through that all we were still able to get everything we needed done to make it home to NH!

We're so grateful for our extended family who live in UT and take great care of us. Uncle Bryan and Aunt Suzy took us to The Black Bear Diner for lunch and then dropped us off at the airport. Thanks for taking the pic Aunt Suzy hehe. Also, we love how it is almost symmetrical. Twins?

Walking onto the plane this woman sitting down talking on the phone proclaims to the person on the other end, "there are twins on the flight!" and proceeds to wink at us as we pass by. Later as we get off the flight she excitedly says goodbye. And then in the bathroom she sees us and just laughs. We love being able to make people so happy from our twin-ness LOL. Can't seem to go one day without experiences like that. 

I didn't notice this until later but the reindeer is holding Jello! Hahaha so Utah.

Neck pillows? Check. Time for lift off! Bye UT.

Mid-flight innocence. We enjoyed spying on the girl to the side of us during the flight. Creepers or no?

About 4 hours later we landed in Boston. We were blessed bc our family didn't forget about us and they were there to pick us up. After another hour of traveling home we finally made it into bed before 2 AM.

The next morning we enjoyed Dad's crazy breakfast #1. hehe

When you only see each other for a few weeks out of the year you're allowed unlimited selfies together.

Visited the Merrimack Ward and their wonderful Christmas program.

When you're so hungry and had to stay after for tithing settlement...

After church we ran home for some leftover pizza and a visit with the Hometeacher and then we were off again to pick up the newlyweds!

For dinner we enjoyed Fire + Ice !! If you haven't ate there, you should. You choose from a ton of ingredients on a buffet table and then bring it to a round grill for them to cook. 

Thanks for taking the pic Dad!

The Christmas lights around Boston were so fun.

Monday the 21st Kort and Kraw had school and Kyle...ahem...Mr. Vallace was substituting and Dad had work. Kels, Kay, Mom, and Cathy went out shopping to prepare for Christmas and we stopped at Wendy's for a quick lunch. The value menu though >

Later that night when everyone was home and Kort was able to take work off {yippee} we went to Moe's for burritoooos. Afterwards, as tradition all the kids went shopping for each other. 

Tuesday the 22nd we visited Kort at MHS!!! She did a project on Dr. Pepper for "the world fair". 

LOL. We even got Kraw and Kyle and Brianna in the pic! Mr. Vallace was a sub, Kraw was there for his class, and Brianna wanted to be a Vallace. If only Dad had been there.

Kort did a great job giving out samples. BUT only if they answered a trivia question .. she was very strict about that. No cheaters.

Mad they didn't have this snapchat filter back in the day.

You think they would've given us special alumni stickers. Guess not.

We were able to play a fly swatter game. That was a riot. The score was 6-5, guess who won. Not Kayley.

Later that night, after Clam Chowder and Chicken Enchilada Soup we built our gingerbread houses!

Not sure if this is candid or not.

Wednesday the 23rd began like normal we worked out, ate breakfast, showered ... and we don't remember what else happened hehe. Well apparently Kort and Kels took pictures with their gingerbread house. 

playing peek-a-boo with the manor they decorated

OH and we had Papa Gino's pizza for dinner. Just for Kyle. And Kraw put a lobster on Kayley's face.

Wound down with a good book. Kay finished the novel Shelter by Frances Greenslade. It was really slow at the beginning but once I got past that part I couldn't stop reading.

Typical. Kels shooing Kay away.

Flashback...a few weeks ago we went up to SLC with our friend Jane. She needed to take some photographs for her class. Afterwards we were starving so we got some burgers.

LOL.

Later that night we visited downtown Provo for the Christmas tree lighting and market.

It really put us in the Christmas spirit!

They even had llamas. Later we went to Humor U and then Kneaders for 1/2 off desserts! Such a fun girls day.

Kels, Cathy, & Kyle went to Ivie after working out one morning.

When Kels is making chocolate chip cookies she doesn't mess around. These things were huge.

K & K ♥