A few days after Levi came home for Christmas, all the Broeckelman family came in for a Christmas visit! It was nice for them to all come here so we didn't have to do any traveling!! With our new house, we have plenty of room to house everyone, so no hotels were necessary and it was so fun!! We've never all been together for more than a few hours at a time. So it was nice to enjoy all our meals together and let the kids play together all weekend long!
We did our Christmas celebration on Saturday, December 20th. We let the kids do all their presents first and they each took turns opening all their gifts. They loved watching each other open everything! Grant and Wyatt loved watching their cousins open the gifts they helped pick out! They all had a very fabulous Christmas and got many wonderful gifts!
Out of the 13 pictures I took, this is as good as it gets when you have six kids ages 6 and under!!
The Handsome Broeckelman Boys
The Beautiful Broeckelman and Harris Girls
After we got the kiddos to bed, the grown ups did their gift exchange. We did a traditional gift exchange instead of buying gifts for each adult. It was a fun and feisty round of exchanging!
The rest of the weekend was spent watching sports, chatting, playing, and eating!! The kids loved being with each other all weekend. Sure, they had their arguments and disagreements but they just enjoyed all of each others company!!
Sunday afternoon, after Summer and the girls left, the rest of us headed to Oak Park Mall. We wanted to show Haylie the Lego Store! We enjoyed some lunch at Panera, walked around the mall for a bit, and then it was off to the big surprise! My boys love a good trip to Chuck E Cheese and Haylie had never been before but had been asking for quite some time! So we surprised them with an afternoon trip there! It wasn't crowded one bit, the just played and played!!! It was a great time!
And I just had to throw this picture of Layton in here because he's just so darn adorable! It was fun having a sweet baby in the house all weekend!
It was so nice having all the family under one roof for a whole weekend! We don't get to spend as much time together as we all would like to, so moments like these were very cherished! Although, we did miss you Cooper!! And I did not take pictures like I should've either- we missed out on another group shot!! Oh well, maybe next year!!
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Looks and sounds like a great time together and not having to pack and travel and then pack and travel back...totally worth preparing, cleaning and shopping for. Right?! ;)) Cute cousins!
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