A Morales Minute

December 27 Olivia flew back to Pasco with Bel and Chris. She wasn't originally going to be coming home but staying in Rexburg with Lindsey and Isaac until school started back up. However things just weren't working out like we expected so Jaime and I just decided to fly her home so that she could have some time with us and the boys and her hometown friends. :) Since Jaime and I were driving with the boys and Koda we just flew Olivia home. She was more than happy to fly with her Aunt and Uncle and the goodbye wasn't that hard because she knows she'd be seeing us in two days and she was GOING HOME! The rest of the afternoon was kind of quiet and some even needed to take a nap to help recover from all the late nights we've been having. 😉 It also happens to be our 24th wedding anniversary! Jaime was planning to take me out to some fancy restaurant but I asked if we could instead of spending that much money on the two of us, could we go somewhere less expensive per per...

December 26 The day after Christmas is usually a day of hanging out at home and relaxing and resting and watching sports. This year we had a full agenda. For lunch we split up to go have the burger of our choice. These guys went to In N Out for lunch.  We went to Shake Shack. I will say their burgers were well seasoned and had good flavor. Not just a ground beef patty. I think we all just enjoyed having a hamburger. :)   A bit of shopping at Dick's Sporting Goods meant the boys could have some time to golf. haha Then it was finally time to go to Andretti for our go kart racing. After racing the last time we decided we needed to go on the faster cars this time. We felt ready.  Prepped and ready to get our cars! After the race we were eager to go see our score times.  Wouldn't you believe it...I got third! Aide 1st, Marcus 2nd. Everyone had a good time and we've a decided that Marcus and Aide must come and practice when we're not there. hahaha After racing the kids all...

December 25 Darin and Christy came over to go to the holiday light drive through display and then have dinner with us afterwards. We loaded in to three cars and headed out to see the lights.  We got there before dark so it wasn't opened yet, but good news we were the first ones there so we didn't have to wait in the long line moving slowly waiting to get in while other cars were driving through.  It was a space/alien theme. I thought it was actually pretty cute. The Christmas music the aliens and Christmas trees would sing was so cute.  Bel and Chris stayed behind without letting the others know. Jaime and I knew because we were all in the know that Chaz was going to the house to set up to propose! We were in Darin and Christy's car (Jaime drove though) so we let them in the know. After we were done driving through the light show Jaime raced back to the house to get there before the other cars and Olivia because Bel said she couldn't get the outside lights on. We got th...

December 25 We were up late opening gifts with extended family on Christmas Eve so needless to say, we got to bed really late. It felt like I had hardly been asleep when the kids came in to wake us up. I had to chuckle that it was Lindsey coming in to wake us up because that girl struggles to get up in the morning...at 10am!! It was just cute that all 5 (yes 5, Isaac was right there as well) came in to our room to wake us up just like they have every year since they were little. It's cute that they want to continue to live the magic and feel like they did when they were little kids.  It was just the seven of us at 6:30am opening the gifts that we got for the kids. Everyone else was still asleep. In the low light of the Christmas tree, we checked out all the kids "Santa" gifts next to their stockings. Then Jaime began handing out gifts to the kids. Again, here are just some of the pictures. I didn't take pictures of very gift they opened and I have never been good of h...