Santa, Daddies Birthday, The Christmas Party and Gardner Village

 On December 10th we went to visit Santa for the first time.  I thought Kail did pretty well for meeting the big guy for the first time.  We were at Layton Hills mall, so after meeting Santa Kail got to climb around in their kids area.

There were a ton of really big kids so unfortunately he didn't get to play as much as I would have liked but he really liked climbing on the little turtle.

Then we headed over to Walmart for a little grocery shopping, this kid loves Walmart he starts smiling as soon as he realizes where we are.

The next weekend was Jordan's birthday so mom and dad took some time off and we all had a nice long 4 day weekend together.

Jordan's birthday was on Sunday but we decided to celebrate on Friday to coincide with the release of Rogue One - Star Wars.  

Its amazing how much Kail has grown in a year.

On Saturday Grandma Jackie and Grandpa Larry had their annual Kids Christmas Party.  This is time for all of the grandkids and cousins to get together and celebrate Christmas with each other.

We played games.

And decorated/ate giant gingerbread men cookies

And then all Kail's cousins were nice enough to play in the play room with him.

Finally we got to open our first Christmas presents.  Kail didn't quite get how to open the presents but he sure did love them once he found all the buttons.

 Then on Monday we went to Gardner Village and walked around to see all the elves.

 We always love the ornament shop.  Kail particularly liked the light displays.

We loved having our long weekend together.  Its so much fun to go do things together as a family.