Christmas 2015

Christmas came and went.....oh about over a month ago.  We had a great holiday!  We went out to the farm Christmas Eve and came back late that night.  Everyone went to bed late that night, by the time we got home and got the care unpacked.  Mike actually stayed up all night long as he took a telerad shift that night.  I prepared the food for the next morning and then made it to bed about 2:00 am.  The next morning we woke up, put breakfast in the oven and then Grandma and Grandpa Farm got here and so did Grandma Jeanne and Mark.  The kids were chomping at the bit to start diving in to their gifts.
They had a great time opening their gifts and their last gifts (their big gifts from Santa), had a scavenger hunt with them.  Even Maddie caught on to it and had a blast finding hers.  However, once she found it, hers didn't work.  Hers was a power wheels ride-on car and well.....the wires were crossed somewhere inside and it didn't get power.  Awesome!  So we had to take hers into a power-wheels deals the week after Christmas and get it fixed.  So poor girl didn't get to use her big gift.  And what a bummer too, cause it was a perfect day for it!  The weather was unbelievably nice for Christmas day.
The rest of the day we lounged around the house and the kids all played on their i-pads from Grandma Jeanne and Mark.  It drove Mike CRAZY to see the kids on electronics all day (especially since it was nice outside).  I had to talk him down and remind him of what it's like to get new toys (even if they are electronics) on Christmas and that they should be allowed to play on the ALL DAY LONG if they want to.
By 3:00 that day (in true Friedman fashion), we had all the Christmas decorations, inside and out, taken down, stored away, and we were all ready for a nap.
The next day we headed to Grandpa Friedman's and Ilen's for breakfast and more Christmas festivities and then from there we headed to GiGi Ruth's.  The fun kept going and going.....we had a great Christmas!!!  I think we could have all slept for 2 days....but what fun it was!

Getting started passing out all the presents......

Time to OPEN!

Annie's turn, she's been waiting so patiently......

 Maddie's awesome car.....that won't go......

 And then this is what the rest of the day looked like........

Two weeks later....and she's finally got some working wheels.......

oh man!!!  it bites back.  she hasn't quite got it figured out yet.  but she now knows that if she removes her foot from the gas quickly, she slams forward into the steering wheel.  learned that the hard way......