Christmas 2021!

 We had an awesome Christmas this year!! We loved being home and having so much time being together as a family!  My mom hosted Christmas Eve for the Ricke clan, and it was such a great party! We spent Christmas day at home just the 6 of us and Joe and I had the 2 weeks off around Christmas, so we headed out for activities and hikes and lots of board game playing at home!

We also got to celebrate Christmas again on the Tuesday after Christmas since everyone in the family happened to be off! It was a really fun mid-week celebration!  We stayed at my mom for 9 hours and enjoyed every minute!!

We also had awesome warm weather the week after Christmas and did some garage organizing, zoo dates, more hiking, long bike rides and tons of outside play! and the kids made this "water bucket trap" to trick joe.  There was a note on the ground by the bricks that read "Papa, move the bricks slowly and carefully"  haha

My mom sewed the kids these amazing horses!! they have been wearing them around all the time!  Josie always rides her "horse" (bike) around the neighborhood, so an actual horse is perfect!