We have had a wonderful Christmas vacation so far, and it doesn't end until January 5! It started out on the 23rd when Heidi, Chad and Dan watched ours and Tim & Carissa's children so that we could go on a double date to see The Minnesota Wild (our professional hockey team) play in downtown St. Paul. They even provided the tickets! It was the first time we've ever been able to go out with Tim & Carissa sans kids and it was a great time. Thanks guys!
Joel and I.
Tim & Carissa Meehan (and baby #4 en utero).
A candid shot. Well, no, not really. I had them pretend to be freaking out at the game :-)
Next, we spent Christmas Eve at Joel's grandparents house (Norris and Lorraine Jobe). They're the ones with the 16 kids! Half of their children come on Christmas Eve and the other half on Christmas Day. Joel's mom is in the Christmas Eve group!
Family Photo on Christmas Eve.
The girls with their Great Grandma and Grandpa Jobe.
Marie and Naomi got to dress alike on Christmas Eve. It was pretty cute.
Christmas Day was spent at Joel's parents house. We opened presents in the morning and had a delicious Christmas Day feast. I might've taken more than my fair share of Ralph's famous stuffing.
Dan and his lady friend, Kaylen :-)
A couple of really cool girls.
Indoor sledding on Renee's Christmas present.
Grandpa and Renee
Heidi showing Renee the great outdoors.
Marie and Naomi in their princess dresses from Heidi & Chad.
What a goofball.
On December 26th we headed down and over to Nebraska to see my lovely parental units. First, we celebrated Jesus's birthday at Grammy Cindy's house:
Marie and Grammy made Jesus a birthday cake! It was angel food - how appropriate!
Marie modeling some of her new dress-up clothing.
Joel was pretending to be the Wolf who ate Little Red Riding Hood's grandma.
My cousin, Casey, came over for dinner and a playdate and brought his adorable son, Cole. It was getting close to his bedtime and he obliged us by taking a photo :-)
Grammy and her little grandbaby.
Me and baby Renee, or "Little Gus Gus", as Marie calls her.
Grammy looking groovy.
Great Grandma and Grandpa Wears with all three of their Great Grandchildren (who all have February birthdays!)
And finally...we had our Christmas celebration with my dad and his wife, Carolyn on their Ponderosa (acreage).
My dad and youngest daughter.
Carolyn made these little stuffed doggies for the girls. One is Zsa Zsa (their vizsla mix) and the white one is Missy (the ferocious pit bull).
Isabelle and I with our babies :-)
P.S. I will try to work on my overuse of smiley faces :-)
4 comments:
Thanks for the new pictures! :) I'm glad you all had a great Christmas and a double date to boot! :) Lucy got the same Cinderella princess dress for Christmas. The little high heeled shoes are not good for bare mommy toes. :( Miss you. :) Happy New Year!
Loved seeing the pics of everyone! HAve you seen the new movie, "Four Christmas's"? I havent yet, but for some reason that movie name popped into my head after reading this blog! Happy New Year!!!
xoxoxoxo Just popped by to see your smiling faces again.
HEY! Mel got that Cinderella dress for Christmas too! I wish we could get a picture of all 3 girls wearing them :) Miss you tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons and tons.
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