12.31.23

12.31.23

We had our annual Forsyth Family Christmas Party on New Years Eve!

Josh and Marissa were here from Philadelphia and Jake was on his way through, moving from Texas to California so all the siblings got to be there. Happy Birthday Josh!

This year Mom and Dad catered Costa Vida to reduce the stress of making food and it worked out great.

We recreated our Christmas Eve sibling pyramid and then the grandkids tried their own version too.

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The cousins all had a snowball fight and opened presents, but my favorite game we played was a Christmas Carol game! All of us stood in a circle and drew out a Christmas song. 2 people had the same song and everyone sang at the same time to find who was singing the same song. The last pair to find their match loses. Kasen found me, singing Frosty the Snowman pretty quick!

Kasen was especially excited about this Harry Potter clue game!

Kohen kept hiding to open up more candy. He LOVES candy. It makes him "super happy". I don't know how he doesn't get sick.

Josh left his own birthday party at like 6:30, which was too late to make other New Years Eve plans. But we went home and had our own party with Kasen and Tai! We played his new Harry Potter Clue game, and poor Tai was not understanding. She made a guess with 3 cards in her hand and when nobody could prove her wrong she said, "Now what?!" We were all very confused. Haha

 The day before the family party we all went to Janica's wedding, in Bountiful together. That morning Kyle got a black eye from being hit during basketball. It turned purple fast!

On Friday we went over to Emma's house with Grammy Tammy to let the kids make gingerbread houses! We hadn't done those since 2020, so it's been a few years!

Of course, Kohen mostly just ate his "ganems"

Besides that we've just been doing lots of Perler Beads! Tai made 11 things the day after Christmas. And I've been making the Marvel ones that Kasen doesn't have the patience for, but that Kohen wants to be made. lol

Kolt pulled the hot iron off of the counter and he was just inches away from scarring his face for life! So that was fun...

Kasen also got to go to a birthday party at Airborne and when I went to pick him up he got courage to go on one of the big slides! He laid on a mat on his tummy, to go down head first and then shoot off the edge at the bottom. I wish I had filmed it! You're supposed to keep your elbows in, but as soon as Kasen started going he flung his arms out like a scared cat and was screaming the whole way down. His face was terrified, but then we both laughed about it at the bottom! 

Christmas time is just the best.

Whoever doesn't like Christmas time is doing it all wrong. Don't let doing so many things stress you out. You don't have to do all the things. Just do the things that you love and make you happy! (Which is why our house doesn't have an elf and why we don't usually go stand in lines to see Santa.)

You don't have to do all the same things every year either. This year we didn't frost sugar cookies, act out the nativity or go see a live nativity. We didn't make snowflakes, go caroling, ice skating or visit a giving machine. 

But we did a lot of other super fun things that made Christmas magical for me. We made memories together and hopefully my kids will remember the good feelings around this time and forget the times I still got after them for the constant whining and fighting, in spite of the magic I tried to create for them.

I love Christmas and I love Jesus Christ.