Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone!  It has yet again been a wonderful Christmas spent with lots of food, fun, presents, and most importantly, family!  God has indeed blessed us again with so much to be thankful for this Christmas!  It has been a very busy 2 days of celebrations for our family but I wouldn't have it any other way!  We look forward to this all year. 

Our celebrations started out yesterday on Christmas Eve Day by going to our Aunt's house for a casual lunch get together as she is newly married and is spending Christmas Day with her husband, Dale, side of the family!  Christian got to open a couple presents from Grandma and Grandpa early!  And Bryleigh wasted no time snacking on the good food! 

Christian and his Toy Story Table



Already into the chocolate pretzels



After a little while, we headed to church. We go to the family service every year and this year's service was a lot of fun!  They had a puppet show for kids and we ended the service with singing songs by candle light or glow stick light for the kids!  The kids did fairly well for it being so packed! This year,  I think Christian finally understands that we are celebrating Jesus Birthday!  We tried hard to keep telling him that is why we get presents and he is really understanding.  After church we headed over to my Grandma's house for our celebrations. We had a lot of fun but we did have some cranky moments because neither of the kids had a nap all day.



After many attempts, this was the best of the two!




My world :)



Christian and his cousin, Denali

Bryleigh and her cousin, Phoenix

My sister, mom, and me



And this is how the night ended!


Before bed, Christian left milk and cookies for Santa and then he was zonked out in no time!  Bryan and I got up early this morning and woke up the kiddos to let them know that Santa had come! We were able to catch the moment with our video camera and Christian was so excited!  We had a great morning with the kids!  Santa was very good to them!

Christian made us this at Preschool!

After enjoying some of the Santa presents, we got ready and headed over to my in laws for more fun!  Grandma and Grandpa once again spoiled the kids!

Grandma Lisa and Bryleigh

She's getting to be a pro at this!

My handsome men

Grandpa Pat opening his presents from us

Christian rocking out with his guitar

After a couple of hours at Grandma and Grandpa's, we all headed over to Great Grandma and Grandpa's for our last get together of the day!  We were all exhausted by this time but we still had so much fun eating and socializing.  And the kids got more great presents!

Uncle Kevin, Christian, and the much talked about, Stinky the Gargage Truck

Great Grandma Lola and Bryleigh with her new Packer clothes

Christian and his new Badgers Jersey

Grandma and the kiddos



Uncle Kevin and Michelle



Grandpa Pat and his girl :)

Grandma Lisa and Bryleigh again

I love my little man

Christan was on lucky little boy this year and just to name some of his favorites:  Rumbling Chuck the Truck, Stinky the Garbage Truck, Paper Jamz Guitar, Chainsaw, Barbecue Grill, shovel lots of cars, trucks, and tools, and lots of clothes including a Packer and Badger Jersey!  And Bryleigh wasn't missed either, she got dolls, a stroller, a kitchen, shopping cart, my 1st laptop, doll house, and lots of clothes! 

We had the most exhausting, fun, special past couple of days!  We have such a mess of toys, wrapping paper, and unassembled toy parts all over our house but we wouldn't have it any other way!  I hope everyone else had as great a Christmas as we did!  God Bless Everyone!