Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Christmas vacation

Greetings, friends and family....we are back from "Up North" and settling back in to a routine...and between unpacking clothes and unpacking gifts and doing laundry and grocery shopping and working on "I'm not the center of the universe because we're not at my grandparents' house anymore" with the boys....I finally have a couple minutes to update my blog.

We did "our" Christmas morning here on Christmas Eve and then headed up north after Craig got off work at 11:30....

The weather last week was frightful, but we made it north without going in the ditch! (5 1/2 hours later) We did our annual "gift exchange" with Craig's brothers and their wives that night. Thanks for the lovely gifts Chris!


Then the boys opened more gifts the next morning. Jack got his first video game player..."Nintendo DS" and Heath got some drums, to go with the ones Santa and Mommy bought him and daddy.

We got to see our nephew Hayden and got to hold him lots which was fun!



This is a lovely necklace Jack got Nana for Christmas...as you can see, she's pretty fired-up about it! (Grandma Balyo got a matching red one!)


Then it was off to Grandma and Grandpa's house for Christmas #3!




Heath got more drums to complete the set and also got some underoos, which he modeled for us right away....





We went sledding and made a gingerbread house. Our vacation was fun and relaxing. Thank you to everyone who got us so many gifts and hosted us at their house!


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