Christmas in MO

From MN, Ella and I heading down to my grandparents house in MO with my family. Marc had a concert to go to on Sunday so he headed home instead of coming to MO. We didn't want to have to drive back to back days to make it home in time for his concert so we thought it would be best if he just came home and Ella and I flew home on Monday.
See, normally we would be at my grandparents for Christmas and do Santa and all the presents there, but this year my dad put his foot down. He was tired of driving all the presents to MO to open them there, so that's why we spent actual Christmas at their house. We still had a great time in MO with the rest of the family. My grandparents house is small and we shove as many people as possible in it. The kids were getting restless and wanted to play outside, but it was a mud swamp out! We had to wait until the temp dropped on Sat afternoon and everything froze then we took them outside. They all got to take a turn "driving" the tractor.

Putting bread bags on Ella's feet, there was a lot of mud!

Happy to be outside

Sara and her kidsAlicia and Kaia

Ella driving the tractor with Papa

I always enjoy spending time at my grandparents house, we don't get to see them that often. Although it's difficult to get the kids to sleep at their house. See, we all sleep upstairs which is just one big room with four beds. So, I'd usually put Ella to bed first and get her to sleep, then Sara would bring up her kids one by one to go to sleep. Then finally we would try and get Kaia to sleep and then bring her up. Needless to say we had very tired kids for the trip, but they had fun. Here is a picture of some of them napping, or should I say passed out!
Before we left we got a picture of four generations. My grandparent, my mom, my sisters and I and our kids.

Then a picture of just our family

I feel blessed to have such a great family and for everyone to be healthy. I loved every minute of spending time with everyone, but I am glad to be home and getting back to normal.