Hello, friends! I hope you've all had a good weekend. We sure did. I'm sure lots of you are now enjoying a nice Christmas break from work. I wish I could say the same, but alas, I'll be at work tomorrow (and the rest of the week, too). I'm here to write about our weekend, but not the weekend that we're wrapping up now, rather last weekend when Doc's parents were in town for a visit. I want to get this documented before I forget! Friday night we had a big birthday celebration. Doc and Wyatt had both had birthdays that week, and Anna's got one later in the month. My family joined us for dinner and festivities so we could all celebrate together.
Here's Doc with both of the birthday kids.
We took the lazy route and just ordered pizza for dinner. I was even too lazy to bake a cake, and ordered a variety of mini cupcakes instead.
Can I just say that lazy tastes goooood. Mmm, I wish I had another one of those cupcakes right now.
After dinner, there were lots of gifts to be opened.
Doc had a little helper (Parker) with most of his presents.
Doc and I were excited to give the kids their candy boxes full of money. They seemed to really like them!
They were careful not to move any of the money until after making sure everyone got to see all the folded money (and our mad folding skillz).
We had them guess how much money they thought was in their boxes and neither of them got close. They were pleasantly surprised when we told them how much they got. Add that to all the other money and gift cards they got from everyone else, and they're loaded!
We invited Bill and Pat to come visit this particular weekend because on Saturday, both kids had their end-of-semester music recitals. We were glad their grandparents were able to come watch them play.
Wyatt played two Christmas songs on the piana, and did a wonderful job.
And Anna played two songs on the guitar. One was a Christmas song and the other was a Selena Gomez song that I did not know. She also did a great job on her performance.
Immediately after the recitals, Wyatt had a basketball game. Here's a picture, but since I have about a gajillion of them, that might have to be a post of its own one day.
The second half of the weekend was much more low-key. We had dinner at home with just the six of us that night. Sunday morning, Bill and Pat were finally able to hear our new preacher at church. It was not a typical Sunday, though, because the children's choirs performed their Christmas play. That meant we got to see both Jett and Bren perform.
Speaking of our new preacher, here he is beat-boxing for one of the children's choirs. Like I said, it wasn't a typical Sunday...
After church, we just had time for a quick lunch before dropping Doc's parents back off at the airport to fly home. We were so glad they were able to be here for so many events! And we hated seeing them go, but are glad that we'll be seeing them again soon in just a few days!