This year we had 5 Christmas gatherings in just 9 days. Yes, FIVE! The Christmas madness included the following: 1) Lageschulte's in Storm Lake 2) Mark, Angie and Elliott's in Kansas City 3) Currie's in Odebolt 4) Lorenzen's in Ida Grove and 5) Scheonherr's in Ida Grove. We had an amazing time seeing all the family and we can now successfully mark another great Christmas in the books!
Lageschulte Christmas
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| Sharing apples...kind of |
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| Coloring with Pops |
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| Family Picture |
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| Someone loved their book |
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| Bedtime reading |
Family Christmas
We decided to start our own family Christmas tradition this year. We went to our church's Christmas Eve service for the first time since we have lived in Kansas City. It was amazing and surprisingly Elliott sat relatively quiet through the service. We picked up Chinese on our way home, of which Elliott ate only two bites so we ended up giving him cereal. So much for our idea of creating a family tradition of Chinese food on Christmas Eve. We made cookies for Santa, Elliott opened his Christmas jammies, and then he was off to bed. Apparently Elliott knew Santa was coming and just couldn't wait to open gifts, so down the stairs we went at 5:30am! After opening presents we were of to Iowa again.
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| Peanut butter cookies, because that's the only recipe Mom had all the ingredients for |
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| Someone was pretty excited for his Christmas jammies |
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| Cookies and milk for Santa |
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| Taking inventory of all his loot |
Currie Christmas
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| Reading his new "Harvest Book" that Grandma made for him |
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| Playing guitar with Uncle David |
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| The boys got out their old farm set and Elliott was in heaven |
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| I sure hope he gets the Currie music gene |
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| Reading with Great Grandma Olympia....Priceless! |
Schoenherr Christmas
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| Classic...Addison mad because Elliott won't sit still |
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| Monkey See Monkey Do |
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| Someone got a lot of trucks and tractors for Christmas |
Your new family traditions sound great to me. Maybe try the Chinese idea one more year?! We need to come up with our plan for just us too. So hard to squeeze it all in, right?!
ReplyDeleteHe looked so excited about the jammies, then so not excited about wearing them and heading to bed!
Trucks and tractors are definitely a hit at our house too!