Monday, December 26, 2011

Christmas

Being home for Christmas means so much more now that we live so far away. Plus getting all of the kids together in one weekend is tough, but I love it when we're all home at the same time. We have been so lucky this holiday season to spend almost 2 weeks in Iowa with both families.
For Christmas we were at my parent's house with my brother and Amy. We went to our traditional Christmas Eve church service that we went to every year growing up. Of course after the service we took our Christmas pictures in front of the tree. Here are some of the good ones.

We ate soup after church which is also a tradition we've had for as long as I can remember. We all kind of pitched in and helped make the food or gathered around the kitchen to watch. I also showed off my fun Christmas sock while we drank wine.

Christmas morning was relaxing. We opened presents and sat by the fire.

It was a beautiful day with no snow and lots of sun. We didn't even need to wear winter coats when we went outside to work off the huge lunch we had. We got out the bags game and tossed some frisbees around (and broke all 3 of my dad's frisbees, sorry dad).

We got some action shots too.

We had a family rivalry football game that night. The Bears played the Packers. Joe is a Bears fan and Scott is a Packers fan... they have been looking forward to this game on Christmas for a while once they figured out they'd be able to watch it together. They both had their team's apperal on and they got team coozies to use too.

Now we're off to Joe's parents to have a Christmas with the family. Only a few more days before we take off for North Carolina!!

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