Happy New Year

We were invited to Jessica and Matthew's house to have dinner and celebrate New Years Eve. Good thing too, since our power went out for most of the evening! It was a really fun night with all of our kids running around. We even had a "countdown" for the kids at 9:00.

Christmas 2010

A little late in getting these photos up... but we had a great Christmas this year. After we went to dinner with Grandma and Papa on Christmas eve, we headed home to open one present. The boys got matching pajamas! We put out cookies, milk and lettuce for Santa and his reindeer (we were out of carrots and figured the reindeer liked lettuce too). We ended the evening with the annual reading of The Polar Express.





It looks like the reindeer like lettuce too!


Since we celebrated Christmas early with our family that lives far away, we had a very calm Christmas. Noah did wake us up at 5:00 though! We let Jude sleep until 6 and then we woke him up to see what Santa left for us.





Grandma and Papa came over for breakfast and then we had a relaxing day at home. The early morning wake up let us all take a long afternoon nap! We hope you all had a holiday too!

Christmas Eve 2010

We went to the children's service on Christmas Eve at church again this year. It is such a neat tradition at our church that the children can dress up as one of the characters from the Christmas story and they all parade to the front during their part. Noah decided he would dress up as one of the Wise Men and Jude was Joseph.


Everyone in costume, ready to go!


Noah anxiously awaiting his part!


Eli, Emily, Jude and Noah after their award winning performances. Emily's decision to be Mary totally solidified Jude's decision to play the role of Joseph.

Christmas Play Date

We went to a Christmas play date hosted by my Garden Circle this morning. The boys had so much fun and are getting more and more excited about Santa coming in a few days!