Leyton, Cal & Fiona: January 2015

Friday, January 30, 2015

McNamara Christmas

On Christmas Eve we got together with Grandma and Grandpa McNamara and the cousins for brunch and some present opening. It was a good day, followed up with Christmas Eve for the McNamara side at Kelly & Dave's house. Dan and Eric were nice enough to help my Dad milk the cows so my mom could have a break. Tina and Susie and the kids were in Missouri visiting Susie's family, so we missed them, but it was still fun hanging out and eating good food!

Cal and Luca, ready to open presents!

Fiona figured out what to do pretty quickly.

Fiona got a Bitty Baby from Grandma and Grandpa that she loves:

Fi and Ella in their matching outfits:

Eric, Lucy, Grace and Leyton, getting ready to hand out presents:

Fiona was overly tired and a total goof ball by the time the McNamara Christmas eve started that night!

Pat and Terri brought this very good idea for a game to keep the kids busy. It was candy and little toys wrapped in a giant ball of packaging tape, and each kid got a certain amount of time to try to pull out what they could before passing it along. It took the boys almost an hour to get it all out of their ball!
Luca trying his hand at the impossible tape ball :)

Leyton really put all of his muscle into each of his turns!

Cal taking a turn:

Rory did a good job too!

More cookie decorating. Cal was very excited to make these to leave out for Santa that night.

Luca taste tested the green frosting a couple times:

Lucy, Fiona and Rory, looking cute and goofy:

Another photo of Luca and Cal!

This picture cracks me up... The poses are pretty adorable!

Pajama time! They were wound up and excited about how soon Santa would be coming.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Visiting Santa

We visited Santa at Farm & Home again this year, and we had no tears! Fiona was very hesitant about me putting her on his lap, and seemed like she might cry, but she held it together for the photo!

Christmas with the Krumm's

The Saturday before Christmas we celebrated the Krumm Family Christmas, at Grandma Krumm's house. It is always a lot of fun, with so many people and little kids running around. Its great to see everyone, and of course eat lots of good food! This year the kids were even surprised by a visit from Santa. Growing up Santa always visited Grandma and Grandpa Krumm's Christmas, so it was fun to see him come to visit all of our kids now!

Fiona is turning into a little ham when you ask her to smile:

Fiona, Lucy, Ella, Grace, Lauren and Leyton. Leyton's fake smile cracks me up in this picture.

Best buddies. They kept themselves busy playing basketball pretty much all night...

Grandpa & Cal:

"Hanitizer" may have been Cal's favorite gift. He still brings some to daycare pretty much every day and shares with his classmates...

Aunt Jessie and Kelly made cookies and brought decorating supplies for the kids to do:

Kelly had a couple games for the kids to play, including this one where they had to knock over the water bottles by swinging the ball in the stocking. The games were hilarious to watch.