Monday, December 26, 2011

Christmas Eve 2011

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve…starting with our first time taking both boys sledding!  We have a good hill by our house next to the school, and we headed over there Christmas Eve morning…Here are Reily and Daddy!

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Isaac watching from below…

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Hiking up the hill!

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Reily going down on his own!

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Isaac after a good run!

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Getting a ride back up!  Look at that smile!

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Reily, mid-throw of a snowball that got Mommy!

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Isaac and Daddy with the snow in their faces!

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Daddy and his boys…such a fun morning!

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After sledding we took showers and went up to Grandma Ellen and Grandpa Lee’s house…our happy little family:

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Brothers…

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Reily checking out the stockings…

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Isaac and Grandpa Lee!

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Opening presents!  They are so blessed!  And so are we!

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Building a gingerbread house…

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Then we went to church…they have a family service with live animals!

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It was a fun service, but Reily got an allergic reaction to something and his eye started swelling, and let’s just say we were glad it was “kid friendly!”

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Afterwards we went out to look at Christmas lights and saw a house on Elati that is always amazing, and this is the final year.  It was packed!

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Watching the choo-choo trains…Reily could have watched them forever!

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Mommy and Isaac enjoying the lights!

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Unfortunately the boys were so exhausted that they fell asleep on our way home, so we didn’t do any of our usual Christmas Eve traditions at home, but I guess when you have young children, you just have to go with the flow!

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