Knochel Christmas!

This year was our year to spend Christmas with my side of the family, and we had a wonderful time! Aunt Molly was home from NYC and Uncle Seth was home from Lubbock, so we were all together, which is rare these days. After sharing Christmas morning with our family of 4 we left the boys in their jammies and headed over to Pop and Moe's house. Once we were there and finished saying hi to and hugging everyone and unloading all of our stuff we broke into the gifts. It was chaos, but fun. The kids loved all their presents and went right to playing.

After all the fun with the gifts we picked up all the wrapping and finished up prepping for the Christmas meal. My mom and sister Molly made the majority of the meal and my sister Kate and I each contributed a couple things as well. The meal was delicious, and well all ate way too much :). Due to the large yummy meal, we spent the next several hours hanging out in the living room by the fire. We did take a short trip out side to play in the snow. It was so exciting to see the rain turn to snow and the yard become covered in a blanket of white. The kids had a lot of fun watching it fall and then bundling up and running around and playing with each other. After a dinner of leftovers, the kids had baths and then Pop read them the scriptures about Christs birth from a children's bible.  We then put the kiddos to bed and all the grown ups played games and visited. We decided to spend the night at my parents house, and I'm so glad we did because it allowed us to spend some good quality time with the cousins and once the kids were sleeping, for us siblings and sibling-in-laws :)

get him Nora!!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas filled with time with loved ones, time spent rejoice over the gift of Christ's birth, and time spent relaxing and enjoying the many blessings of our lives here. May God Bless you in 2013!