Monday, January 14, 2013

Christmas 2012

Since this is a "catch up" post, I will try to stay to-the-point, rather than giving all the nitty gritty details...

With that said, I hope EVERYONE  had a fabulous Christmas!  Once again, we had an extraordinary holiday all together!  Although Luke was VERY busy leading up to the holidays, and immediately following, we still made the best of our short and sweet time together as a family.

Christmas Eve - 

Seriously, one of the BEST experiences of my life!  (and thank heavens for GREAT travel weather).  Luke FINALLY had Christmas Eve off this year (I don't think he has ever had x-mas eve off the entire time we have been together!) so we REALLY wanted to take advantage of that time.   We decided to make the drive to Austin, MN to attend the Harris Family "Redneck" Christmas.  What a spectacular day!!!!!!  First, let me say THANK YOU to Bob and Colleen for hosting such a memorable, fun, and family-filled day.  We enjoyed the company of more than 30+ loving family members, a delicious meal, many many generous gifts and most importantly, SHOT GUNS!  Oh yes, you read that right.  The men (as a tradition) got all their gear out and shot guns for a good 2+ hours!  I have to admit, I was REALLY looking forward to this.  And the experience was as wonderful as I had been hyping it up to be!!!!!!!!   I REALLY hope we can make this yearly tradition.  It was one of my all time favorite memories of 2012!

As you can tell, Jameson wanted NOTHING to do
with getting his picture taken!



Christmas Day - 

We had to get right back on the road x-mas eve evening to make it home for Christmas morning.  (plus Luke had to be at work VERY early on the 26th).  Christmas day was spent with just the three of us.  It truly was a very relaxing, family day.  We woke up bright and early and opened our gifts "from Santa" as a family, enjoyed a little breakfast together and then lounged... And trust me when I say lounged... If I remember correctly, we did not even change out of our jammies the entire day.


Daddy taking a look at his new desk calendar
(filled with pictures of Jameson!)

Checking out his new Mega-Blocks


The Remainder of the Holiday Week - 

Just like last year, my family joined us the 26th-30th.  Although we couldn't all be together on the actual holiday, we made up for that in the days we had together.  And I have to say, my parents REALLY helped us clear out the remainder of the moving boxes we had left in the house!  All in all, it was a win-win situation :-)

Honestly though, the few days we had with Nana and Gpa were spectacular.  We truly had very little planned, but we definitely filled our days with playing, laughing, movies, relaxing, eating and cruising around Sioux Falls.  It was so nice to have everyone together and celebrate in our own relaxed way.



Although I always hate to see the holidays come to an end, I was ready for it this year.  It had been such a crazy few weeks leading up to the Christmas that I was looking forward to our "normal" schedules.  Not to mention we have so much to look forward to in 2013!


Again, I hope everyone had a VERY Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Cheers to 2013

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