Burkle Christmas

The week after Christmas my parents came to visit with my grandma.  My grandma spent the month of December and half of January with my parents.  We had a warmer day, so we decided to get the kids out to play in the snow.  The boys didn't have snow pants, so we wrapped their legs in plastic bags.  It worked really well!

I can't remember why Pierce is crying.  Maybe he was upset about being done.

Reading books with Papa

Dance party

A couple days later, we drove to Lincoln for the Burkle Christmas.  We had planned to host, but it didn't work out.  After Pierce got sick, my brother's girls had fevers.  We all had only one day to be together, and it worked out better in Lincoln.

We ate Christmas dinner first.  Then, we did our food competition.  This year it was a drink challenge.  Everyone made one drink for the kids to vote on, and one drink for the adults to vote on.  

The kids went first.  The winner was unanimous.

Then it was the adults' turn

Rod lit their drink on fire.  Unfortunately, I couldn't capture the flames on camera.

Josh and Megan's drink was called the orange bowl.  Long story.

Zach and Megan won both the kids and adult category.  The other teams felt like an alcoholic oreo milk shake might be stretching the lines of the category "drink", but it was delicious!

Their winnings

Then, it was time for gifts.

Adorable kids in adorable jammies

One of our gifts to my mom was an apron made with the kids' handprints

While we were together, we also each took 4 generation pictures with my grandma.

Even though our time all together was short, we were blessed to be together.