Dudo Family Christmas

The Sunday before Christmas we packed up and headed to Grant to spend time with Kurtis' family.  Our original plan was to leave around noon but by the time we opened Santa presents, packed (packing for two was a pain; I feel like I packed our entire house) and loaded up the car we didn't leave until around 2ish.  It was Avery's first long road trip and she did extremely well.  We had a stop a couple times for Landon to go potty but we didn't end up having to stop for Avery until Ogallala.  Once we reached Ogallala it was snowing really hard so we were thankful we were only 30 minutes out at that point.  Kurtis' sister and her family were on their way as well.  They recently moved to Evanston, WY which is about 8 hours way from Grant (11-12 from GI) so we made plans to stay until Thursday in order for us to spend more time with them.  Our original plan was to stay until Friday but Kurtis wanted to work on Friday.  It was a nice visit!  

Avery meeting her cousins!

Amberlee serving Kurtis tea.

Aunt Erica

Kurtis built the kids a fort in the living room  

Landon absolutely loves his cousins.  He was so excited to see them and was still talking about them when we got home.  He isn't too much younger so he enjoyed playing with them.

Amberlee (6), Roan (4), Landon (2) 

The advantage of a small town is we can walk everywhere. Landon; however, only brought crocs so we had to pull him in a wagon to keep his feet dry. Kurtis' dad bought Erica and I a gift card to a cute boutique in Grant so of course we had to go shopping.  I ended up buying a new scarf to add to my collection.  It is one of my new favorites.  

I bought a gingerbread train hoping Landon, Kurtis and I could put it together one evening; however, that never happened so I took it with us to Grant.  Kurtis did all the prep work the night before then the next morning the kids each decorated their own piece.  They loved it!  It was definitely a fun project for them to do together.  

Landon had the engine

The finished product!  

The boys watching a train movie

Of course Landon had to be silly

Like father like son

Grandpa has a huge train set up in his basement that Landon absolutely loves.  Kurtis even bought his dad a Thomas engine so Landon couldn't wait to watch it run the tracks.  The bad news is...they ran it so much the engine burnt up.  Grandpa told Landon he had to send it into the shop to get fixed.

Of course another Ninja Turtle; his favorite Leonardo!  

Truly Blessed

Avery's First Christmas

Christmas morning

 My sister-in-law was wearing patterned leggings around all week and I kept asking myself...could I pull those off?  She ended up buying me this cute pair and I was actually surprised they looked cute.  I just need to get a slightly longer shirt.

My friend Megan and I have talked about me wearing leggings so this is my first step.  I ended up ordering me some black ones after Christmas so we'll start there and see how it goes.   

Landon and Roan playing with their turtles.  

Exhausted after a fun filled day playing with his cousins!