Christmas at the Cabin

This Christmas my family all got together at a cabin in Heber, Utah.  There was snow everywhere which made it so beautiful and picturesque and especially fun for the kids because they got to play in it.  It was large too, which is good when you have as big a family as I do.  We got family pictures taken one of the days we were there.  With 4 new grandbabies born in 2014, we were a very large group.

We also rode the Polar Express one of the days we were there.  The kids had so much fun riding the train.  Logan loved sucking on my hot cocoa cup.  I bet he would have liked it even better if I'd let him taste the cocoa.

 He has been teething for the last few weeks so he sticks out his tongue like this a lot.

 The kids were a lot less nervous of Santa for this than they have been in the past.  Lucas and Paige voluntarily sat next to him and Lucas even told him what he wanted.

 We all got little bells to take home and I'm pretty sure the kids were shaking them the whole ride back.  Everyone but Logan who was sucking on his.

 Paige danced with the elves.

She is so cute in her little snow hat.

 After the Polar Express we all went out to eat at this burger place that has a train running around the ceiling.  Paige was obsessed with the train and watched it the entire time we were there.

There was also a train table and a lego table there.  The kids were having so much fun we just decided to let them play for almost an hour after we got done eating.

 It seems like my kids are always waking up before everyone else when we go on trips.  Luckily aunt Julie brought toys for the kids to play with so we weren't too bored while waiting for everyone else to wake up.

I got some candy cane jammies for Lucas to match the ones we already had for Logan and Paige.  Lucas was so happy to match them.  They are such cute little pajama babies.  And yes, Paige wore that necklace pretty much the entire trip.

Here they are looking in their stockings on Christmas morning.

 Getting ready to open presents.

 Paige got these adorable boots from my mom and dad.

 Paige got a shopping cart from Santa.  Daddy helped put it together.

 Lucas got a hot wheels track from Santa.  He was pretty excited, too!

 My mom and dad opened their presents last after all the kids were done opening their presents and were playing with their new toys.

 My kids were a little nervous of all the new people at first, but they did pretty well.  Especially Logan who has been notorious for not going to anyone but me.  He seemed to like Julie pretty well, and he loved uncle Mark.

 Paige fell asleep on grandpa a couple of times.

We had such a good Christmas!  And despite the fact that all 5 of us got sick, we still had a lot of fun.  It was so much fun to be at the cabin with my whole family and get to visit with everyone and play board games and laugh until way too late at night.  I hope we can do something like this again some time.