Our Christmas 2009 …a long post…but lots of good pics!

Christmas Eve

Every year we spend Christmas Eve with my Mom’s side of the family. Thanks Aunt Jenni and Uncle Doug for hosting. You have the warmest, most inviting home. A wonderful reflection of you both! This gathering is an evening of delicious food, serious laughter and reminiscing. This year we found out that Hannah and Zack are engaged! YAY! Congratulations you two :-) Can’t wait for the wedding! Owen tried so hard to stay awake for everything but eventually gave up and fell asleep in Jer’s arms while we played a very loud game of Rob Your Neighbor/White Elephant. We left with some Chocovine Wine and a funky Christmas candle I’ll more than likely be re-gifting at next year’s event! It was fantastic time and we’re hoping 2010 brings more gatherings just like this.

Christmas Day
We had an amazing Christmas Day. Complete with the white fluffy stuff on the ground. Here’s a photo montage of our day!! Words are not necessary here!

Walnut Christmas
The day after Christmas…we enjoyed everything we love about Walnut visits, plus the added excitement of Christmas. Owen opened his first Walnut stocking. We watched 6 inches of snow come in between Saturday and Sunday, had waffles at the breakfast table courtesy of Grandma Linley, and enjoyed a visit with everyone from Wisconsin! We also stole Grandma Linley’s chocolate chip cookie recipe…she let the secret out of the vault…it was taped to the kitchen cabinet all this time!! I still don’t think I’ll get them as good as she does. But I can try! Jer and I even snuck in a cruise on some back roads and put the car in four wheel drive on a trip to get ice and soda from the gas station. It was a great time. We made some wonderful memories and we can’t wait for them to visit us for Owen’s 1st birthday!

Our final Christmas Exchange
Our last exchange of the season was with Grandma Linda and Grandpa Gary. We were able to enjoy a few hours with them on a Sunday afternoon. Here’s some pics from our get together.

Christmas Presents

Just a few of my favorite presents from this year!
-Glee CD’s
-Blue Tooth

-Our Jigsaw puzzle picture of us…we’re gonna put it together, frame it and hang it on our wall

-Cricut

-Lost Season 5 (ok...it's actually Jer's but whatever...what's the saying...what's mine is yours?)

-Giftcard for a Delicious dinner and a promised date night

-And my Paula Deen Pots and Pans!!

Making out like a bandit
Owen was more than spoiled this holiday season. Though the season is not about the gifts you get…they were given in love and that means that Owen is very LOVED! Thank you to everyone for all your generosity! Owen’s Christmas was so very special because of the time we spent with each of you!

New Years Eve
We rang in 2010 in the most fabulous way! As Linoski’s! We ordered pizza, played Scene It, opened presents and Jer and I fell in love with the movie The Hangover. Seriously hilarious! Steff had out her fabulous camera and so we’re sharing all of her pics. I linked to them previously but will again here. For pictures of the night…just follow the link from her blog!

Highlights of the night?
Steff and I crafting a lantern while we waited for the boys to get to the house.
Domino’s took less that 25 minutes to bring us dinner!
Watching Steff eat wings while sitting on our counter at 10pm because we were hungry again
Playing our own version of Scene it…which was WAY more fun.
Learning all about Alan and “shoot” and “darn it”…and jungle cats and nice ladies and how to collect money for Vegas by scamming a classroom full of kids for field trip money!
Thanks Steff and Bry for a fabulously relaxing and laughter filled evening. We can’t wait to see what 2010 has in store for us!! And we can’t wait to take a Triple D road trip!!!

What a holiday we had!  We are so very blessed :)