Sunday, December 28, 2008

Merry Christmas

What a wonderful holiday week! Not to mention a crazy month with the birth of Sophie, Ella's birthday, and all of the Christmases. It has been very busy in the our household. Since Sophie has been born, we can get to work on unfinished projects in the house. Right now, Chad and Uncle Adam are gutting out Ella's old room, and that will be Brock's new room. He is also working on turning part of our garage into a butcher shop. Meanwhile, I am finishing up mudding and sanding the kitchen to hopefully get it finished and painted in the next month or two.

Daddy's girl
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Brock, Ella, and Sophie made Christmas cards for the family.
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Our Christmases started on Christmas Eve over at Grandma and Grandpa's house for lunch. The kids raked it in as usual. They loved everything they got. We spent the majority of the day over there visiting and relaxing. It was such wonderful day!
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Christmas morning came really early in our house! Daddy helped Brock and Ella set out cookies for Santa the night before and put them right by the stairs/chimney. Brock woke up at 2:30 wanting to see if Santa had came yet. Back to bed he went for a few more hours. A little before 6:00 he was up again, so Daddy got Ella up, and we headed downstairs. The cookies and milk were gone, and Brock freaked out! "Santa came! Santa came!" They were so excited to see what Santa had left them. It made Mommy and Daddy feel good when Brock was really excited to give everyone else their presents. We must be doing something right! The kids were back off to bed a couple hours later for a quick nap before we headed to Great Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Ella kept yelling "yeah candy!" when she would pull it out of her stocking.
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We headed out to Great Grandma and Grandpa's for lunch. Brock got to play with all of his cousins and had a blast. After lunch and presents, it was back to our house for another quick nap before we went to Grammy and Papa's.
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Our final stop of the day was Grammy and Papa's, and the kids were pooped! They had a lot of fun seeing Maddie and playing in their hideout. It was such a nice Christmas holiday loaded with family and fun. We always look forward to this time of year.
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Papa and Sophie
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Grammy and Sophie
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Auntie Heidi and Ella
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Uncle Adam and Erin
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Ella and her new kitchen...
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and vacuum. She is so domestic!
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