We had such a nice Christmas! It was crazy, busy, and fast, but we got to see lots of family! The kids got tons of great new toys and Paul and I also got quite a lot of nice things that we are pumped about! Hopefully I will have time to add some pictures soon.
We started on Thursday night with a dinner at our house with my sister and Dan. We ate and then opened a few gifts. Grady got a new Ducky game that he is really excited about! Every time this weekend when we would tell him that someone is going to come to our house (at some point in the future) he would always ask if they could play his Ducky game with him!
Friday afternoon we left for Paul's parents house! We hung out with the fam, played games, ate, etc. all night and then on Saturday morning Grady got to do his favorite thing ever! Ride in the tractor with Grandpa and help feed the cows!! He then got to go play at Isaac & Luke's house! We had our Christmas lunch and presents on Saturday afternoon. The whole family went to Christmas Eve church and then to Gma Betty & Gpa Ken's for the whole Guenther family Christmas. Grady especially loved it there! He was SO in his prime running around with Isaac, Luke, Will, & Shelby. Brynlee was also very entertaining, crazy enough! She was chewing on this Domino piece all night and then she started to put it in her mouth and spit it out and would then belly laugh like it was the funniest thing she had ever seen. She did it over and over for about 5 minutes straight! It was hilarious! And she does not laugh very easy. She is pretty laid back/relaxed and it takes a bit to get her to laugh! She had the whole room watching and laughing at her! I got a video of it and will hopefully be able to post it soon too!
We left to drive back to Lincoln around 10:00 on Saturday night (and Brynlee did great until 10:00 with no evening nap!) and were back at home in time for Santa to come!
Sunday morning we woke up to lots of great presents from Santa!
Grady got: a tool bench, a Leapster, a marble tower game, some baseball guys action figures, and a Cootie game.
Brynlee got: a pink ride-on pony, a cabbage patch doll, a peek-a-boo doll, a baby grand piano/musical thing, and a push-toy/wagon.
Brynlee's toys were the biggest hits with both of them! Especially the pony and piano.
We also opened presents from Aunt Ashley & exchanged our presents with Ashley. (who stayed at our house all weekend)
We were at my Aunt Lori & Uncle Scott's house by 9:00 to have breakfast with them! It was awesome to start the day out there AND to not have to worry about breakfast on our own that morning! We also got to see Aunt Shari and Josh.
We then left for West Point for the Hagedorn (Paul's moms side) Christmas around 11:00. We got there in time to finish lunch, play some games, open presents, eat more good food, hang out. Again, the kids did great with no naps. Brynlee is such a trooper! She as so tired all 3 days, but just sits so nice and content. Give her some more puffs or crackers and she is happy as can be. Her only downside is that she won't sleep very well in new places. Especially for naps. It's hard to get her to nap when we are at places like that. She sleeps great in the car though! She had a bad night at Paul's parents for the first time. She wouldn't sleep in the pack in play. She went to sleep at first, but then she got woken up when we came to bed and was scared of not knowing where she was. Paul slept the whole night with her in the twin bed. He tried to put her back down and she would just scream. I felt bad for her because she was scared! She's just a hard age to travel with right now too. It was nice to only be gone for 1 night! And, we are sort of dreading going to my Dad's next weekend....for that reason...
Yes, we are heading back for MORE Christmas parties next weekend! We are going to have our Christmas at my Dad's on Friday night and will then head back to Lincoln for a New Years Eve Party with more family at our house! We love to Party!
Then on Jan 7th, my mom's side of the family is getting together! All weekend! And, it will be in Lincoln so it will be super nice to NOT have to travel that weekend at all! And, we can go home for naps!! :) Oh, the little things that make parents happy! haha!
We hope everyone had a Very Merry Christmas!
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