Crazy, Busy, Happy: January 2018

One day it snowed. Yup, it snowed! For one whole day/night it snowed and created a beautiful while blanket outside. Yup, that was one day. We waited what seemed like forever for this to happen and the moment it did the kiddos took full advantage of it. Kynzley woke up to the announcement that school was delayed two hours! This meant she could spend all morning outside and she lived it up to it's fullest!

It was hard telling who had more fun running around - the dog or the kids. Brutus LOVES the snow and dives in and out of the snow banks like it's his job. We adventured outside three times though out the day to get fresh air, shovel and so Benton could make snow angels!

This past weekend we enjoyed an afternoon full of dance! We love when the local competition comes around! Kynzley loves watching the West Salem dance team, especially her big cuz Miss Zoie! The girls danced awesome and Kynzley loved being able to see them receive their first and second place trophies. One more competition and our fingers are crossed that we will get to watch them again this year at state!

First place performance!

Eva B. was down from up north on Saturday and got to enjoy some dance with us as well!

The ho ho holidays have come and gone! We had a great holiday break, filled with lots of giggles and family time. The weather has been uber cold so our days have been spent inside - A LOT! Boo!

This Christmas break we did something a little different and headed up north to have Christmas while all the kiddos were off of school. In the past we have scheduled Christmas in the tundra either early or late. Now that the kids are getting older and more involved our weekends become difficult to sync. We decided this year we would try and do it while all the kids were off of school - it worked great! Everyone loves seeing each other and the noise - oh the noise! There is so much noise! Majority of the time it's giggles ;-)

Over the break we also found time to make memories with friends and of course as a family. Our kiddos seemed to have a great Christmas morning and enjoyed the whole day in their pj's enjoying their new toys. As they get older the excitement seems to grow and it's so fun to watch. Kynzley and Benton love to pick out gifts for each other. It's so fun to see them exchange Christmas morning :-)

We are excited to see what 2018 brings! We're ready for it!!

Merry Christmas (eve) 2017

Benton 3, Kynzley 7

Setting our her reindeer food

Kynzley is constantly making short films on our ipad, she received her very own video camera from Santa this year!

Exchanging the gifts they bought for each other

Christmas morning snuggles with my boys

Kynzely got a 3D pen and created her first masterpiece

Grandma and Grandpa with the grand-babies

Oldest to youngest: Owen, Eva, Kynzley, Nora, Halle, Becca, Harmon, Benton, Lucy, Inga

Holicky's 2017

Even with house full of 18 people, Benton couldn't hang

Pajama time

L-R: Halle, Kynzley, Eva, Nora, Becca, Owen

Grandma and the kiddos that were still awake in their Christmas jammies

Kynzley and the birthday girl, Eva!

This year we got to help Eva celebrate her 8th birthday!

This Christmas we welcomed a new member to our family! Meet Ossker (as Kynzley would say, "We like to spell names different in this family!")

Fun Christmas Extras:

Benton, Kynzley, Lily and Ella

Rotary Lights La Crosse, WI

2017

Who would have thought, out of all the kids Benton would be the ONLY one to talk to Santa and Mrs. Clause. The girls all chickened out but Benton was not afraid to tell them exactly what he wanted them to bring and put under the tree!