It was the week of Christmas! And the last day of school for the year, and Megan's birthday, and Kevin's birthday! All week was a party!

We celebrated Kevin's birthday on Wednesday. Kevin found us a way in to the gym at our old Brookside church and we all went there for some basketball games. We split into teams and made songs for our "country" so the other countries had to sing our song when we won! We played three-on-three, but also elimination, and a free-throw contest, too. Avery strolled the gym with her walker and had a great time, too!

Afterward, Megan and Ammon made salmon mango tacos for dinner and Kevin's mom and Jim came over after that for cheesecake, visiting, and some presents. It was a fun day.

The next day was Megan's birthday! In the morning, Sarah, Cali, and Chey joined Meg at the Provo Rec Center for some Zumba! They came to our house after lunch and made gingerbread houses together, Meg's idea. What a fun birthday activity! We gave Meg some presents and then Ammon picked her up after his work to take her out to dinner. It was a super fun day, too!

For Christmas Eve, we were able to go to Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik's for our traditional candlelight dinner! The kids prepared a program for us while we finished dinner. After dinner they performed a lipsync and the nativity! Then we had a small recital/talent show and then played chimes. Finally, we exchanged presents with Grandma and Grandpa. It was a lovely evening and a lot of fun, too!

The next day was Christmas! The kids "woke us up" at 7am. (We're getting to the point where they sleep longer than us!) Megan and Ammon spent the night and Sarah and McKay and Avery got here at 7 so we had the whole crowd! What a treat!! We opened presents from Santa and then had French toast breakfast before we needed to break and get ready for 9am church. 

Sarah and McKay had 10:30 church where they were singing in the choir and Megan and Ammon had 11:00 church where they were giving talks, so we regrouped at 1:30 and opened the rest of the presents from each other under the tree! Afterwards, we had a nice Christmas dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik (at our house this time). What a fun Christmas day! How blessed we all are! God blessed us everyone!

See the cute matching sweatshirts that our college kids made for us?