Friday, December 26, 2008

Christmas 2008

Hard to believe how quickly Christmas came and went this year. Seems like we were behind in everything we did due to the late harvest...which only made x-mas sneak up on us. And the weather has been complicating things even more.

But we enjoyed a nice Christmas! X-mas Eve Noah and I spent the evening together. We ate dinner, opened presents and of course, watched Christmas Vacation. It just isn't Christmas without watching that movie at least once! Christmas morning we headed to Pella to see Noah's family - at his sister's house. We enjoyed spending time with them. Then late that afternoon we headed to my family's. We got there just as Dad was getting done with chores so we decided to open presents then eat later. It was a nice night. Noah and I were gifted with $ so we could purchase a video camera to capture all the baby's moments! So we'll be heading out in the next few days to purchase that! Thank you to everyone for our gifts!
The big present of the year was at the Van Maanen's house - they are now the proud owners of everything Nintendo Wii. That will make for some fun nights at the VM's...especially during winter season when the VM Aquatics Center is closed for the season.
Enjoy the photos below!
Our tree at our house, which will be coming down ASAP and replaced with a pack 'n play!

An awful attempt at taking our photo in front of our tree.

Noah with his niece Myka.

Noah's niece Bryn, drawing Earth on a magnidoodle. She's very creative!

The Van Maanen's. Russ looking overly joyed - he LOVES family photos!

Grandma and Grandpa with M&M. Grandpa doing his best not to smile. He also loves having his photo taken.

Mollie - the human present.

Max - another human present!

Max doing what he loves most - building! G&G got him an erector set...similar to what Grandpa had when he was young.

We love Uno...so we have every Uno game out there - regular Uno, Uno Spin, Uno Attack and now the latest Uno (not sure what it's called, though).

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