Cocoa Crazy was pretty well-behaved this year - no extra messes or pranks. But look how much he is growing!
We drove up to WI on December 26th. Shortly after arriving, we went to my Grandma's house to celebrate Jodi and Graydon's birthdays. (Jodi's birthday was that day and Graydon's was five days later).
My brothers and sisters all pitched in for one big gift for Graydon this year.
An electric scooter! He's already had a blast zipping around on this thing.
My parents got two new dogs within the past few months. I didn't get any photos of Stormy, but here is little Rocky on Bella's lap.
Later that evening, we had our Christmas celebration at Jodi and Aaron's house. The original Benetti homestead.
Can't go wrong with a "green Christmas!"
We laid low the next day before heading to Mary's for some tacos and more family time together. Rocky is pretty content as long as he has a lap to sit on.
On Sunday morning, a bunch of us went out for breakfast. Graydon and Bella started playing with their food.
From there, we made our way to Verona for some Kilps family time.
That evening, we all gathered around in the living room and updated each other on what we've been up to and also plans for the coming year. It was a great way to catch up. And while we were doing this, Tyler gave Bella a few new hairstyles!
Time for presents!
The following night we went out to dinner. We celebrated Andy's mom turning 70!
The kids had a couple sleepovers with their cousins. One night, Bella and Tyler gave each other the "spa treatment." I wasn't there for this, but apparently Bella even put on spa music and spoke in her "spa voice!" Tyler is such a good sport to put up with this stuff.
And now, the highlight for Graydon - his birthday! Laura got all of the kids passes to Urban Air. The kids love it there!
Taking a little snack break.
Back at the house and ready for more celebrating. Graydon discovered recently that he really likes jelly donuts and preferred that to cake, so we stuck eleven candles onto one jelly donut!
More presents for this boy!
Time to ring in the new year! These horns sounded like a bunch of elephants in pain! We enthusiastically rang in the new year with New York City. However, it was technically only 11pm in Wisconsin. Most of us made it to midnight, but our celebration wasn't quite as vibrant by that point.
We fit in a couple more family visits on New Year's Day.
Bella wanted to enjoy the snow, so she made a couple of snowmen.
Here's a closer look at her baby snowman. It's so cute!
We packed up the van on January 2nd and made our way back to Indiana. I wasn't sure if we'd be able to fit everything in, but Andy made it work. We always love visiting with family, but it always feels great to come home after being away for a week.
The kids did some shopping the next day. They all had some Christmas money burning holes in their pockets.
The boys bought monitors for their video games and we set them up in their room. I was previously against this, but their video game stuff was starting to take over the living room, so I relented.
They are both very happy with their purchases. And the rest of us are happy to have a peaceful living room back.
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