Hymas Happenings

Christmas morning was magical as always. The kids were excited about their surprises from Santa. Grandpa and Carter set up a camera to try to catch Santa and He dropped his hat right over the camera so it blocked everything! Maybe next year Carter! Rylee was ecstatic with her pink balance bike.  Bri loved her new tent  Carter has been begging for heeleys for years and was super stoked about them! Mollie got an easy bake oven that I guess I didn't get a picture of.  Stockings were next! Santa was even good to G&G Reed!  Everyones loot!  I was way excited for my instapot!  After gifts, we had a yummy cinnamon roll christmas tree breakfast!  Here's one from Christmas eve that wouldnt fit in the book. Grandma read the kids the nativity story from the bible while they got to act it out with the little people.  The day after christmas, me and the kids stuck around for a few extra d...

The day before we left a few surprises showed up! Since we were traveling, we didn't want to take the big gifts with us. chad spent many hours in the garage building Carter a lego table! I thought it turned out so great and will be a fun inheritance to keep in our family.   Mollie asked for a computer chair that spins. So that was my project. I actually repainted it and reupholstered it and it turned out really cute!  And then, there was a knock on the door! A snowboard had been delivered from Santa for Chad!!  He was pretty surprised I think!  The saddest thing happened durring all of this though....I didn't explain to her that just Carter and Mollie had big gifts, so she was crushed when she didn't have a gift to open! The video of it is so sad! So i dug through our bags of gifts that were already packed to find her a gift to open!  she perked right up when it was a BARBIE with pets! We sure love our kiddos and love seeing them light...