Merry Christmas 09!

Rylee Ann (5 years old)

Elijah Trent (3 years old)

Kale Carl (1 year old)

We had a wonderful Christmas this year, and I hope you all did too! Christmas Eve we headed to Sally and Mike's Church for the candle light serivce. It was a nice service, but all in all it was an hour and 40 minutes long. Let me tell you it is not that easy to keep 5 kids (7, 5, 5, 3, and 1 years old) happy, content, and quite for that long, but somehow we managed to do it! They had a couple dress up as Mary and Joseph with a their young baby swaddled up as Jesus. They walked in from the back of the Church and walked the isle up to the front of the church. I pointed them out to the kids, and Rylee looked at me very seriously and said. I think that Baby Jesus would be all grown up by now. I don't think he would still be that little! That made me laugh! After getting home and getting the kids to bed. Santa had lots of wrapping and assembling to do! So it was a late night.

We were lucky that they kids slept fairly late. We went down stairs to see what Santa had brough them. The kids were very excited to see the gifts that Santa had brought. Rylee got a bike, Eli a Robot Truck, and Kale got a vaccum cleaner. Of course there was lots of other toys and presents too. After playing for awhile, we packed up and headed to Grandma Hendrickson's house for Christmas with Trent's Mom's side of the family. Later that night we visited with Trent's Dad at Grandma and Grandpa Schneider's house for a bit. We stayed overnight at Judy's house, and celebrated Christmas with Trent's Mom and Brother & Girlfriend on Saturday. Then headed home...I was a good thing we have a mini-van cause the kids got so much stuff that we had it packed to the ceiling!

Sunday we headed up to My Mom and Dad's house to celebrate the Hutter Christmas. It was a nice weekend all in all. We were excited to see some cousins that we don't get to see, and meet Rhonda's new boyfriend and his daughter (Riley). It was a good time! By the time we got home on Sunday night it was supper and bed time already.

We still have two more Christmas's to celebrate. We are getting together with Mark (Trent's Dad) on New Year's Day, and celebrating with my family on the 2nd! It's nice to spread out the Christmas "Joy"!

I hope you all had wonderful Holiday's! Merry Christmas!