We headed to Illinois around 4 am on December 26th. We made it by mid morning and started our Christmas fun in Sherman. We stayed with Matt's parents through the 28th and then stayed in Lincoln until the 31st. Time always seems to go really fast when we are in Illinois, but we got to see almost all of our family and enjoyed the little time we had.
Santa's Helpers...Landon, Kinsley, and Keegan
Landon opening some presents in Sherman
Keegan in his new Marshall pajamas
Cara with her new t-shirt quilt
Matt getting ready to dig into those present
Keegan opening his presents
Cute pic of Kinsley opening a present
Keegan and Landon helping grandma make some sugar cookies
Papa and Keegan
Sweet Kinsley with Aunt Marcia K
Kinsley and Keegan
Kinsley eating her first sugar cookie....she LOVED it
Kinsley, Landon and Papa
Lori and the boys met us for bowling one afternoon.
Nathan, Keegan and Lori
Keegan getting his ball
Aunt Cara and Landon
Landon getting ready to throw a strike
Landon pointing to his score of 100
Since it was nap time during bowling for Kinsley, I lucked out and got to stay home and take care of her. She slept on me the whole time and was a little angel. So precious!
The boys had never been to the Lincoln museum before, so we decided to go one day. Here we are with Lincoln's family
The museum also had a Cardinal and Cub exhibit, which was perfect for our family since we are split being Cardinal fans and Cub fans.
Landon wrote a memory on the wall about going to the Cubs World Series Game.
Keegan wrote, "Boo Cubs Boo" on his note! That's my boy :)
Keegan and Fred Bird
Giving the Cubbie bear a thumbs down
Thumbs up for his pic with the Cardinal team
Landon and the Cubs mascot, Clark
Keegan and I with a pic of the World Series Champs after the Cardinals won
After our fun time in Sherman, we headed to Lincoln.
A family pic at Mom and Dad's
A picture of the 4 grand kids
Here is Landon opening some legos.
The boys got new shark tail blankets. Here is Keegan with his!
We got Chloe flippers to wear in the pool. She loved them so much that she wore them around the house all day!
Selfie with Mom and Jeremy
The Four Kids toasting with some sparkling grape juice.
Jeremy, Cindy, Adelin and Chloe made us workout Jenga as one of our presents. It's awesome, and the kids had fun playing a couple times.
Keegan is concentrating hard not to make it fall
Landon being extra careful with his Jenga piece
On Saturday, we had Christmas with the Riggs family. We were so very excited to meet the newest little addition to our family. Tyler and Becky welcomed sweet Haseley a couple weeks before Christmas. She was so little and so precious. We are so glad we got to meet her!
Haseley asleep on my lap
Landon loves babies....here he is getting his fix with Haseley. He didn't want to give her up.
Aunt Missy and Uncle Kevin gave the boys robes, which they love and wear every single night. Here they are with their robes on.
Another family pic
Jeremy and I
Our crazy boys
Chloe and Keegan
The kids playing the penny game
Art work by the 4 kids....love them!
They even made legos that spelled out 4 kids
We drove home on New Year's Eve. We met a pit stop in Normal and watched Adelin play basketball at halftime of the Lady Redbirds basketball game. She did great and we are glad we got to watch her. Then, we hit some snow and our trip took longer than anticipated. However, we were still back at our house by 8 pm. We unloaded the car, unpacked everything and put most of our things away while we were trying to stay up until midnight. I was the only one who didn't make it and Matt thought this picture was hilarious.
I did wake up before midnight though and we rang in the New Year together.
Keegan slept that night with all of his new stuffed animals.
Thank you so much to our family for another wonderful Christmas. We hope that the new year brings all of you health and happiness. Here's to 2018!!!
