I-70

I am convinced that the drive from Kansas City to Denver along I-70 is one of the absolutely most mind-numbingly boring drives on this planet.  In an attempt to make it slightly more interesting I looked up oddities in Western Kansas.  We saw the largest easel in the world in Goodland, Kansas and the Wheat Jesus Billboard in Colby, Kansas.  I know my family deep (very deep) down my family loves it.

You get so excited when you finally get to Colorado only to realize that Eastern Colorado looks exactly like Western Kansas.  It's more of the same.  We stopped at the Old Town Museum on the Colorado side.

We liked the decorations and they had an elf in each building that you had to find.  Some were rather creative and difficult to find. 

We're almost there!

Merry Christmas!

Every year the kids draw a name to secretly get a gift for each other.  It's so fun to see them thoughtfully get something they think the other will love. 

We had a lovely Christmas and Christmas breakfast.

Christmas Eve

 We had a lovely Christmas Eve.  We had a lazy morning and then we cooked and decorated cookies for Santa.  It generated (as most things do) into wrestling a couple of times. 

For our family devotional Little Man shared one of his favorite scriptures of Jesus, and then the other 3 combined to give us a dramatic performance of Nutcracker's March.  Little Lady played the piano, BB was the soldier, and Little Guy was the Rat King.  It was hilarious.  

Afterward we opened pajamas and played a game that was from Grandma Stuetz.  

We decided to attend a Christmas Eve service at Country Club Christian Church downtown.  Our friend is the musical director there and the music did not disappoint.  The brass quintet was fabulous.  

They're ready!  One sleep until Christmas!

Christmas Sunday

 Little Lady played cello in the youth orchestra number and the whole family sang in the ward choir for the Sunday Christmas program.

We enjoyed friends for dinner. 

The kiddos are counting down until Christmas. 

Wedding Weekend

We celebrated Kayli and Will's wedding this weekend.  Kayli and I work together.  I had the privilege of training her, and she's just a lovely human being.  It was fun to be there with people from work.  Bonny and Scott performed at the wedding. 

Decorating in Sugar

 It's gingerbread houses time.  We love doing this every year.  Little Guy decided to create a banana on the side of his house.  He definitely is his own human.