I took away a plastic bag from Rhen 3 different times before I finally followed her to find out where she was getting them from.
There was lots of room for them to snowshoe and explore...
Josh is, of course, trying something dangerous. Does this tree look like it is supposed to be climbed with snowshoes on?
Playing games - where's Josh?
There he is - why am I surprised that he is snoozing by the fire?
They said they had a lot of fun and promised to take us with them next time!
The highlight of the day for Rease - Princesses galore! She became a princess herself with her new dress and crown. She still wears it almost everyday.
Nolan and Rhen managed to open one of the ornaments that had these little blue specks inside. They were everywhere and even after a few hours there were still a few of them lingering about...
That night we gathered all our talents together and had a family talent show. Britt and Chad were in charge and the rules were that everyone had to participate and there would be no complaining. We managed to scrape together a few hidden talents. 
After the talent show we started our 1st annual Christmas Bingo. The kids played one round and then went to bed.
Then it was time for the adults to have some fun! Mom had about 50 presents and 20 gift cards/cash on the money tree with the biggest prize a $100 bill. We played bingo for about 2-3 hours and all ended up with some really fun (and funny) things. Caleb came away the big winner with the $100 and a $20 bill along with a bunch of other cool gifts. Chad and Britt ended up with a cute pink purse that for some reason Chad didn't seem to happy about having! After all the presents were gone we were given 8 minutes of "bartering" and then the gifts were final. That was the best part of all! Josh and I , after the bartering was done ended up with some great things and some cash and gift cards to go along with it. What a fun holiday tradition!
We had such a fabulous Christmas and didn't want it to end. But eventually Chad, Britt and the boys had to go home and we all had to go back to normal life. Thanks for such a great holiday everyone!
That night we got together at mom's house and had our traditional Christmas Eve. Rease and Rhen had new Christmas dresses that were so cute.
Our dinner - Hayley insisted on using the nice Christmas dishes and it looked great!
Aunt Britt read stories to the kids while we waited for dinner and the activities to start.
Grandma got out these cute reindeer headbands for all of us to wear and jingle bells to jingle as we sang Christmas songs. Rhen kept trying to figure out what was on her head.
Next the nativity scene - as Josh mentioned Mary and Joseph rode the donkey into Bethlehem which actually turned out the be a leopard instead of a donkey - who knew?
We opened gifts from our grandparents that night - all us girls got kitchen utensils from Grandma Wisniewski.
We ended the night quietly as the kids went to bed and we prepared for Christmas Day. We also snuck it quite a bit of the Wii in our spare time!
The night wasn't as intense as Rease is making it out to be.
Here's all the Grandkids Nolan, Wyatt, Rease and Rehn enjoying the sound (and the taste) of the jingle bells durring the songs. Don't ask me why Rease is licking them.
When we did actually go get the fish, Rease was very excited to help pick them out and carry them home. She named the fish: Daddy fish, mommy fish, Reaser fish and Rhener fish - original. Later we ended up getting an algae eater which she promptly named "Smoochy fish."
Within a week of getting the fish one of them died and was replaced by a Dalmation fish that Rease named "Jasper." And also the frog the mom handed down to us jumped into the filter and committed suicide, resulting in a very dirty tank when the frog guts were sprayed all over. Overall a good experience so far with a few bumps in the road.
