Christmas (cough, cough!*) 2025

We started off Christmas break with a night out to eat at Golden Corral. The kids loved it! They'd never seen so many options for food and desserts before! We might make this a tradition.

And of course, we decorated Christmas cookies!

And then things slowly started going downhill. On Christmas Eve, Violet woke up feeling sick. Travis stayed home with her that night while the rest of us had a fun night at Mamie and Papa's.

On Christmas morning, Jaxon developed a cough that got progressively worse as the morning went on. We had to stop asking him to give hugs, or talk as it just made him cough even more.

Violet was still sick on the couch and didn't feel like opening presents. Eventually she and Jaxon went to bed. The whole situation distracted us from taking lots of pictures. We were trying to get through as many presents as we could.

For the next WEEK, it felt like we only had 3 kids. Ginger, Ivy, and Talmage has lots of fun with their presents. 

At the end of the break, Violet and Jaxon started turning a corner, and Violet felt like she could finally open her presents we had saved for her.

We even had an extra day to do something fun, so we went to BYU.

 It was a crazy fun, crazy sick, crazy crazy Christmas.