What a fun time of year! We had a great holiday with Owen and Grace at the most fun ages ever! Owen really got excited to rip the paper off the presents this year and I even found him under the tree a couple of times the day before trying to unwrap some gifts, one of them being his!! As you know our Christmas was a little spread out this year, which really makes it more fun and relaxing I think. We celebrated with Adam and Amy in Penn. over Thanksgiving. Then the weekend before Christmas Kay and Mike came to our house and we celebrated on that Saturday. Owen got a Little People car garage that was a huge hit. Grandpa couldn't get it together fast enough! Owen helped by bringing him all of the parts which was adorable! Grace's big gift was a new MP3 player with a screen. We had a really wonderful day with them. The next day we headed to Monroe for the Bystry Christmas once again in awful weather.
On Christmas Eve Day Bill and Marilee came up to celebrate and stayed 2 nights with us. We enjoyed our favorite Roast Beef and ghardinera pizza and opened gifts with them that evening. Grace received new bedding for her new bed and Owen got Elmo Live that talks and sings. He didn't know what to think of it at first but after a while warmed up to it. He would just sit motionless and stare at it, not knowing what to think. I can only imagine what thoughts were going through his little brain! Aaron and I received a huge beautiful wall clock which just happened to be the same gift Aaron had bought for me that I picked out. Bill and Marilee won, I love it!!! In the morning G. Marilee said her and Grace woke up at 3am and had a hard time falling back asleep. Grace did not get up to get us till 7:32! Owen woke not to long after. Our big Santa gift was the Wii for the whole family. Grace was so excited! Grace also received some books and HSMusical dishes and Owen Cars dishes and books. From us Grace got a 84 pc. Barbie furniture set that I got a screaming deal on the day after Thanksgiving along with Barbie car and HSM Barbie. Owen got a Little People Eddie's boulder work site and some new Nerf balls. Dad got Guitar Hero Aerosmith. I returned my clock for Dance Dance revolution for the Wii. We had a fun day spending half of it in our Jammie's and the other half in sweats, playing wii and just hanging out in the coziness of our home. Doesn't get much better than that!
Friday morning we headed out to my parents for the weekend. We spent Friday afternoon and evening with my Mom enjoying snacks, opening gifts and a little Wii.
Grace's big gifts from my Mom were a digital camera and a moon chair for her room. Owen got a kitchen that we still have to put together, the one in the pic was my Mom's! We had a great evening hanging out!!
The next day we hunkered down with my Dad and Holly and actually opened gifts in the morning thanks to Holly! Usually we are tortured to wait until the evening, ha! Holly is getting Grace tickets to High School Musical at the Fireside in Ft. Atkinson. Grace asks every day when we are going! Owen got a race track that once again he couldn't wait for to be put together! We enjoyed another night of pizza but this time it was Holly's homemade pizza that was outstanding!! Helen, Holly's mom joined us for dinner and we had a really nice evening. Later on that night we played the Wii. My Dad and Holly got a kick out of it and we were laughing so hard while battling each other in boxing!! What a hoot!!
Anyways, it was a really nice and relaxing holiday with a lot of quality time spent with our parents, which is always priceless!
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