12/31/18

Got Pizza, pop and snacks and stayed up late watching a new season of When Calls the Heart. We also watched Dr Pol.  Adam and Eli fell alseep around 1:00 and Jacob says he went to sleep around 6am.  

Happy New Year!!

12/30/18

Fazoli's

Jared  here writing about the Russell Christmas weekend.  We headed down to Indy on a Thursday and had a nice rainy drive down.  Better than snow and ice. Farmer's Almanac said it’s going to be a wet winter.  right so far.  

Friday morning Eric, Kat, Andrew and Noah arrived around 10am to open Christmas presents.  Kat brought over a ton of Christmas cookies.  Super good and we successfully hid them for the kids for quite some time.  Once discovered they didn’t last long. Had a great time exchanging presents and laughing.  Jacob, Adam Eli, Andrew and Noah had a ton of fun playing around and goofing off.  Went to the neighbor hood park.  played a ton of tag and basketball.  I was whooped.  had a great time.  So Saturday Eric, Kat Andrew and Noah arrived early for waffles and to play.  Kimmy, Mom and I went to lowes to get some new hinges for her cabinets.  we got them all for a great deal. But needed more…so Kimmy and I took a bit of a road trip to another Lowes that had a better stock pile.  They matched the discounted price. WEEE.  Good job Kimmy.  The new hinges were not an an exact like for like replacement so we needed to manufacture a shim for each hinge.  We made them out of plexiglass scrap that mom had laying around.  We cut and drilled holes and made our shims.  Needed almost 100. Noah and Andrew helped us make our shims, it was quite the group project. Mom and Eric worked on removing, cleaning and reinstalling all the cabinet door and drawer pulls while Kimmy and I replaced hinges.    We worked for 3 to 4 hours on the kitchen. Mom scrubbed till she was  whooped.  The kitchen looks sharp.  We made another trip down to the park after all the work before dinner.  more tag and basketball.  exhausted!  Oh and I forgot we also replaced a couple of toilet seats as well.  projects completed successfully.  Start a new list.  

We played a lot of 3-13 games with mom and Dad.  Lets just say the men didn’t fare to well this trip. 

We had a great visit.  finished off with mom and Dad treating us all to fazoli’s on Sunday after church.  mmmmm.  Nice dry trip home even though the Farmer’s Almanac says it’s going to be a wet winter.    

12/29/18

Grandma made waffles and pancakes for breakfast. 

Noah and Wyatt in the kennel - haha

Off to Lowes

Russell boys

12/28/18

Opening stockings 

Jared cheated opening a duck taped gift from Eric.  Inside were two oranges - haha

Noah flying Jacob's helicopter

Walk to the park

Playing tag

12/27/18

Our big lap puppy

Jacob flying his helicopter.  Grandma getting dinner ready

12/26/18

Adam and I tied in a game of 3-13!

Daddy came home from work early.  Playing legos with Eli.

We took down our Christmas tree this evening.  

Jacob loves his scratch art from Kenzie

Merry Christmas

Wyatt with his new sock monkey toy

Eli is on the sandhill

Papa is carving in the gun he made Eli

I love these pendants from Kenzie.  She also made me a pin pendant thats really pretty.  I put it on the backpack I use for a purse.  

This is uncle Jared's ninja peep.  Her and uncle Jared used to stick a toothpick in the peeps before putting them in the microwave. 

 

Adam came out to peek at the presents around 12:45 and then came into our bedroom.  He fell asleep on our floor until around 4am and then went to check on Jacob.  Jacob was already awake even before Adam started tapping his head to wake him.  Jacob had already been out to check out the presents and found all of his.  They woke us up at 5:00 but we stayed in bed until around 6:00.  Adam woke up Eli who hopped right out of bed.  We had muffins with coffee or pop for breakfast.  We let Wyatt open his first gift which was a chicken meaty dog bone. That kept him busy while the boys opened their stockings.   In their stockings were gum, candy, nerf darts, flashlights, glow sticks, gel pens, pencils, highlighters, notepads, and rulers.  Adam made Wyatt a glow stick collar. Then they boys handed out presents and we took turns opening them.  The boys all got nerf guns, legos, socks, and hats.  Adam and Eli got Garfield books and Jacob got a teen study bible. Jacob got an art pencil/led and a battery cell.  Eli got some walkie talkies and a stickbot. And Adam got a couple 3DS mario games. Adam tried out his new games right away.  Daddy got some m&m's, muck boots, a few 25ft extension cords, a salt/pepper pottery tool and a bunch of pottery sponges.  Wyatt loves sponges and has ruined most of ours.  He is quick to find them when they're out and chews them into little pieces.  He even got one of the new ones but its still usable.  I got 3 seasons of Dr Pol, some new baking sheets, pyrex glass storage containers, and a memory foam bath rug.  After presents were all opened the boys got right to building their lego sets.  Jacob helped Eli with some of his star wars set.  After Jacob's set was put together he read in his new bible.  Adam had fun playing his DS.  Eli went outside to try his walkie talkies and walked up to the sand hill.  We talked to him from inside the house.  We watched a couple Dr Pol episodes.  We ate around 2:00 and had ham, mashed potatoes, and corn.  We also had leftovers from Christmas at Mom's.  Mom and Dad came over around 3:00 and stayed for a couple hours.  We had a nice visit.  Wyatt was super excited and barking because I was holding him back because my Dad doesn't like dogs. He doesn't bark much but when he does its super loud.  After a while I put him in his kennel to settle down.  He was much better after a few minutes in there.  He went over and sat by Papa and even got some pets from Papa.  Then Nana invited him on her lap.  Dad took all the chocolate kisses from the candy jar but decided to leave one for us on the deck as they were leaving. Mom told me about it but the cats must have got it because it was gone.  It was a nice day outside.  We took a walk in the woods and Wyatt had fun running around. Back inside we had a really fun nerf battle.  This evening we watched Dr Pol and had popcorn pop and ice cream.