New Year's

 For New Year's Eve, we headed back to Six Flags.  I think we are going to love these season passes!  Lincoln wanted to take a picture under this fun holly tree.  I love all of the holly that grows around us, we have holly hedges in our yard and they don't get berries until around Christmas time!

 The roller coaster I detest...but end up going on numerous times with the kids.  Josh took one for the team this time so I didn't have to go (although I got my share of turns during the day).

 Apparently Goliath isn't that fun...Lincoln fell asleep :)

 Josh took McKay and I took the older boys on the big roller coasters.  This time it was me taking one for the team.  Josh and I are such wimps, we aren't huge roller coaster fans.  

 This boys is always making me laugh.  Such a ham. 

The boys discovered they could feel the roller coasters moving while laying on these bars.  They thought it was pretty cool.  

After going to Six Flags we came home with seafood and treats per tradition and had an 80s movie night waiting for midnight.  We watched Karate Kid 2 and right before Back to the Future, 3 out of 4 boys went upstairs and put themselves to bed.  The only one who stayed up to welcome the new year with Josh and me was Hunter.  Oh well, at least they weren't grouchy the next day!

Six Flags

 My MIL gave us season passes to Six Flags for Christmas this year which we are SO excited about.  We decided to use them asap and went the day after Christmas.  It was perfect, they weather was cool, but not cold and the lines were short.  

 We also loved how it was decorated!  The really went above and beyond in the Christmas decorations department. 

 We tried to stay together, but it is tough when McKay and Hunter can't ride the same rides as the older boys.  Luckily they would let us trade off and ride.  McKay and Hunter got to play our phones so they weren't complaining and Palmer and Lincoln got to ride the ride twice in a row.  Everyone was happy.  

 Neither Josh nor I love rollercoasters.  We both get pretty sick on them (lame), but this rollercoaster is called Goliath and it is so fun!  We both agreed we could handle that one.  

 There was a little section of the park that played Christmas music and snow (bubbles) would fall.  It was pretty great. 

 I loved that they had a nativity set up!  

 There are different sections of the park, and this one is in the one dedicated to Georgia.  It has magnolias and peaches all over it and even has the smell of peach everywhere.  

 The little kids and I had a great time and I chased them around in the bumper cars for a while.  McKay would scream and get so excited when I crashed into them.  I know they are dying to be big enough to ride the roller coasters, but it is fun to have time with them.  

 We met up with another family in our ward that has season tickets and had the greatest time with them and their kids.  

This is a roller coaster that the little kids can ride and let me tell you...it's miserable.  McKay loves it, but it is so bumpy and jerky, give me a big, smooth roller coaster any day over this one.  

 I loved all of the little Christmas tunnels.  This one had mistletoe in it, which Josh and I fully took advantage of (TMI?) 

There are lots of fun characters at Six Flags.  We love the Looney Tunes guys!  They did this fun musical Christmas show. 

 We loved how each land had different Christmas lights.  The Georgia one had peach lights everywhere.  I really need to find some peach trees here, because it is the peach state and I have yet to see a peach tree.  Not sure where they all are. 

 My favorite decorations were the candy cane trees.  The whole place smelled like candy canes!

We had such a good time (and headed back a few days later for New Year's Eve).  We are going to have a great time with these season passes!

Christmas 2014

 For Christmas Eve, our tradition has always been to go my parents house.  I wasn't sure how it was going to be not being around family this year.  Our ward had a wonderful Christmas Eve musical program that we went to and then we headed to our Bishop's house for dinner and white elephant gifts.  We all had a really good time.  We came home and put out brownies and milk (ya know, because Santa gets sick of cookies) for Santa.  McKay made sure that we did it.   The pictures aren't great because I left my camera flash in Africa.  I had to use my phone.  They aren't great.

 We then opened pajamas per tradition.  

 This year they all had matching Star Wars pjs.  

 Love those cute boys.  This was the first year that McKay could fit into pajamas that matched his brother.  Big deal.  

 Santa came!

He definitely loved our brownies.  

 The kids were all pretty thrilled with what Santa brought them.  

 Scout always leaves a parting gift for the boys  

 Palmer painted this picture for us.  What a fun Christmas decoration for years to come!

 We got such a cute package from my friend Kristen.  

 The boys all got slippers this year and they describe their personalities personality.  

 The elder spent the day at our house talking to their families and eating lunch with us and we got the sisters for dinner.  We felt pretty lucky.  

 We bought them cute little bike necklaces as a gift. 

We started the tradition of prime rib for Christmas dinner and we LOVED it.  It will definitely be a tradition for years to come.  We had such a lovely Christmas, we missed our family like crazy, but it was still a good one.