Christmas 2022!

    Starting with Christmas Eve gifts. Cute grand babies were excited to open a gift.

An old school 'speak & say' 

Christmas Eve gifts. 

 

 

Matching hoodies with their initials, which number child and Kmetzsch on the back.
 

    Carter may or may not have known that Mark's initials actually spell Mark.

    Christmas morning!

Matching polka dot dresses.

Traditional lineup. 

Books, clothes, and money! 

Happy Beau. 

    Sadly, Kayli and Tanner's gift was lost, $200 cash missing! Hopefully it turns up sometime in the future but in the meantime I just transferred $200 to their bank account instead. But here's photos of the rest of the kids opening their main Christmas gift.

Mark was thrilled to get this pressure cooker/air fryer appliance. 

 Custom gaming remote for Isaac.

 Roller skates for Carter.

Clothes and $ for Brock. He was especially excited about this jacket. 

Air pod pros for McClane. 

And a variety of things for Charlie, including new shoes, clothes and a few fun things. 

I got several great things like these adorable little garbage cans for the car. 

    Then we had the sibling gift exchange.

Kayli got Carter cologne. 

Carter got Kayli Chick filet gift cards. 

Mark got McClane a cool hot wheels track. 

McClane got Isaac this cool tiny drone. 

Isaac got Mark a cool r/c car. 

Charlie got Brock a cool lamp and soda and he got Charlie LED lights for her room. 

Greg got some great gifts, new shoes, a chain saw sharpener and a little money to help buy some beef.

    The photo below is to document this years Christmas miracle gift. I really wanted a new iPad, one that was just for me that I didn't have to borrow or share. Of course they're not cheap and Greg really didn't have the budget for a new one but he put out a few feelers for a used one and initially had no luck, but then a good friend's dad said he'd happily gift me his iPad that he got last year and hasn't touched once since receiving it. (Our good friend actually bought it for his dad last year for Christmas, so really this generosity can be turned on him too.) He refused to take any money for it but insisted I have it! I was blown away and so thrilled, this is going to make my life so much easier in a multiple of ways!

 

Cute girls! 

 

   I also got a new TV for my kitchen and so Greg put the old TV in the garage and now he takes time to himself to watch TV in the garage where he's kind of hidden from family and friends. Kind of funny!

Photo courtesy of our garage camera. 

    And outside of celebrating Christmas Charlie's happiest when she's with friends doing anything and everything, including drives up American Fork canyon.

 

Silly girls.

    And last night we had a much awaited dinner at the local 'all-you-can-eat' sushi place. 

I'm just a witness to the insanity, no sushi for me!

    Hopefully weather doesn't wreck our New Years Eve celebrations but only time will tell. We're going to enjoy a few more days off from school either way.