Christmas

I know I've been terrible the past few months of keeping up on this blog. Life just gets so busy and crazy that this is one of the first things to go when I just can't seem to find time to get everything done. But today, I'm actually caught up on business stuff, house stuff, and am taking the time to update this horribly outdated blog and let you all know how our Christmas went.

This year I was in charge of the Sunday School Christmas Eve service at church, which meant that we couldn't go to mom and dad's for Christmas. They were very understanding and came here instead. They (along with my sisters) were able to come a few days before Christmas, which gave us time to make sugar cookies and other food. The girls of course had a blast playing with their aunts and getting lots of attention. Christmas Eve was spent making food and playing games before church. Christmas Day we ate dinner after church and then spent the afternoon opening presents. The following day we had Christmas with Calvin's parents and again spent the afternoon opening presents. We had two more extended Christmases too that next week. Overall, we had a wonderful Christmas. We are so blessed to have so much family around to spend time with.

We opened our own presents before my family came. Calvin wanted it to just be us, which was really nice. The girls were so excited!

The girls' big present from Daddy

Waiting to open presents

She was so excited!

Playing with their new farm set while waiting for Grandma and Grandpa

Getting "beautiful" before the Christmas Eve service

Family Christmas Eve picture

My girls - my best gifts

Opening stockings with Daddy

Playing Wii while waiting to eat Christmas dinner

Can we open yet?

New toothbrushes from Aunt Dani

Chloe's new bike helmet from Aunt Kathy

Christmas 2009

Our Christmas was a little crazy this year. Aubrey ended up coming down with a fever Tuesday morning. She missed her Christmas party at school (which she cried about) and had to go to the doctor, where we found out that she had an ear infection. I had the doctor check Chloe too even though she was showing no symptoms of anything. She was fine. The rest of my family came in Wednesday, and we unpacked everything. Wednesday night Chloe started running a fever, and I took her to the doctor Thursday (Christmas Eve day). After waiting at the doctor's office for over an hour, we found out that she had a sinus infection. She was given an antibiotic too and continued to run a fever off and on until Saturday. She was pretty crabby. Besides all of this craziness, we had a great Christmas! It was so fun to watch the girls open their gifts and see how excited they were about their new things. It was also fun to spend time with family!

Aubrey all dressed up before her school Christmas musical

Making Christmas cookies with Grandma

Family Christmas picture

The girls

Opening the presents from Santa

Passing out presents

Trying out her new binoculars

Chloe had to open all of her presents while sitting in the stroller.

The girls in their matching pajamas.

Opening presents with just the four of us

Aubrey shooting baskets

The Wagner grandkids

Chloe riding her new tricycle.

Aubrey and Clare with their double strollers.

Chloe and Clare in their matching aprons and hats.