Merry Belated Christmas! The Haak house was full of Christmas festivities this winter!
The kids eagerly decorated our tree!
One of my favorite holiday activities is finding Hannah and Hudson's Christmas outfits. My mom found her dress this year. I love it!!!
Hudson made this adorable ornament in kindergarten. Good thing I got a picture of it because it didn't make it through the night. He had so much fun playing with it, it broke:(.
This is was time for our yearly Santa pic. Hudson is enamored with Santa this year which I find ironic because we don't celebrate Santa. He kept telling Hannah all about how he comes down the chimney and brings you presents. I asked him if Santa came to our house and he said "Yes!" Ok! So I downplayed that but we really try to focus on Christ, except for the Harley/Santa pic:).
Engaged in a deep conversation with Santa!
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One of our favorite parts is the donuts afterwards! Yum yum!
Ok, I guess we did another Santa related activity. No wonder he's confused!
Our dear friends dad dresses up as Santa around the holidays so they hosted another kid evening with Santa. We ended up calling him Opa Claus, because it's Colton's Opa, which I liked because then Hudson didn't think it was a real Santa.
Here's all the kids eating!
Santa pics!
Then each kiddo got a small gift:).
Lego fun!
We came home that night and put together his lego Star Wars ship! He put it mostly together by himself, except for a few parts. I was so proud of him!
Finished product!
Then we had some pics done at JcPenny for our Christmas cards. I love how they turned out!
We did have our annual baking day. The kids mainly pulled off wrappers on hershey kisses and rolos but they're helping...at least when they aren't eating them:).
That next day I went to work and I only had 10/26 students. 16 were gone with the flu. I didn't feel the best and wanted to come home early! The next morning at 4am Hannah came down with a high fever. I asked my mom if she would watch her so I could go finish my week and celebrate at the Christmas party.
That night Hudson earned his first belt, advanced white belt, at karate. Warhorse rented out a room at Mirabeau and it was a show, I guess. They had short skits, black belts performing many sequences with chux, bow staffs, and so on. I was at home with sick Hannah:(. Nana and Pops went to celebrate as well!
Strike a pose! He was so proud!
He also came home with his Hudson Elf. Too cute!
That night Hannah's fever went throughout the night. I've never felt my children so hot. Hearing that one of my co-workers kiddos had influenza, I ran an errand on Saturday morning but decided to take her in. To test for Influenza, you have to do a pretty nasty nose swab. Yeah, not fun. I had to restrain her but it was influenza and we were able to get Tamiflu for her, which cuts the flu in half.
Then it was a trickle effect...Hudson got it a few a days later and Jared ended up with it on Christmas Eve. Luckily with Hudson, I was able to call his ped and she sent in the prescription for Tamiflu so he didn't have to do the nose swab and since two household members had the flu, Jared didn't need it either. Few. The doc gave me Tamiflu b/c I begged! My neighbor told me to ask for a family pack and she wouldn't give it. It would have been nice!
So our poor daddy was sick, the only one who threw up, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, so we left him at home to rest and we went to my folks. It was weird not having our daddy around. So after we came home Christmas Eve, he was still throwing up, I let the kids give their "sibling" gifts to each other.
Hudson was clearly ecstatic with his Playmobile Dragons:). We had so much fun putting them together and playing with them.
The next day we headed up for Christmas Day festivities at my folks. I left the kids in pjs so we could eat Nana's delicious homemade Christmas breakfast. We hurried out the door and I kept the kids in their pjs! It was worth the rush out the door!
Hannah loves this horse rocker that my Gigi & Gpa got Hudson. He didn't care for it but she uses it enough for both kids:). She even added brother Joe's bearie on it. Too cute! Both kids love that bear!
The kids, at breakfast:).
Then it was just a nice, relaxing day with family. Having a small family is nice because other than getting the food on the table, it's pretty relaxing.
Music time with Uncle Joe!
Sibling snuggles
He always has a weapon of some sort.
Present time...more weapons
Hannah loved her stroller, bearie, shoes, and backpack. She was ready to hit the town!
Lego movie snuggles
Hanahs' new favorite activity, painting nails:).
Then it was time for some target practice. Hudson is all about a Bb gun lately!
Then it was time to head home. We missed our daddy and we were hoping he was feeling better!
When we got home, we opened a few more gifts. Probably Hudson's favorite gift was this Boomco gun from the Henrys. It shoots 20 darts in less than 2 seconds. We had a lot of gun/nerf wars around the house since we were cooped up for weeks!
Putting together the Playmobile castle.
The next day we went to a Chiefs game. Jared still wasn't feeling top notch so he stayed home:(. The kids loved it! They had a great seat where we could let Hannah run and she couldn't escape! There was a goal within the first 2 minutes so that got them excited as well! I think there were 5 or 6 goals total, plus the foot and "nacks" as Hannah says, they were in heaven!
One of my favorites:).
Then it was time to say goodbye to Uncle Joe:(.
New Years we were still all recouping so we had a quiet night at our house. Nana and Hud played some intense games of Connect 4.
Then the siblings took a turn.
The day or so after we finally got snow!
Hannah thought it was a bit cold but Hud was ready to go!
Since we were all sick, we missed our opportunity to head to Sunnyside for Jared's family's Christmas. The kids were so sad. They kept asking when they were going to see all their cousins and Grandma and Grandpa. So we moved it after New Years. Well then Grandma was sick along with some cousins. We had just gotten well too! So it didn't work out. The kids were even more bummed. So my parents offered to meet up at Chuckie E. Cheese to get their minds off it! It worked!
Princess Hannah. Cinderellie
These kids love Chucky!
More snow came the next day and we had a fun family day playing outside!
Daddy pulled the kids on the sleds!
They had a blast!
This Christmas break didn't go as planned. It was not ideal, but we really had a nice, relaxing time as a family. Usually we are so rushed between this activity and that activity, we were forced to relax and that was a blessing!
We hope you had a restful, relaxing break with family!
So sorry you guys were sick over the break! That stinks. But I'm glad you at least had a relaxing time and it looks like you still had a lot of fun with your family. Seyler also "believes" in Santa even though we've never done it. I don't even really know where she picked it up. Kariya flat out told her he wasn't real and she was a little upset but not too bad. I told her we could pretend and she seemed satisfied with that. :) I love the sibling pic in the chair. So cute!
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