Tuesday, January 6, 2009

All At Once

Thats right...everything falls all at once around here when it becomes Christmas Season. We started off with our own family christmas, then we drove to Indiana for 6 days to spend christmas with Nick's family, my grandparents christmas, and nick's grandparents christmas. Then we drove home just in time for all of my family to come here to Tennessee for christmas and new years, and then to top it off, my birthday was yesterday (Jan 5th), and our 8th Anniversary is tomorrow!!! Nothing like cramming it all in at once!!! (and this is the reason for the lack of posts lately)
Here are some pictures from the past 2 weeks of celebrations.
Our Own Family Christmas:
Waibel's Family Christmas:

We always have an appetizer meal with about 12 different appetizers to choose from. Always so fun and yummy.

Here is a picture from the Wyss Christmas:

This is the Harold Gutwein Christmas: Gutwein Christmas and New Years Eve in Tennessee:

Uncle Jason made cookies with the kids.A huge mess of christmas paper...as Aunt Raquel said "Christmas Threw Up" :) We enjoyed our time celebrating Christ's Birth with family!!

I enjoyed my day yesterday on my birthday. Played games with the kids, and we made Chess Squares instead of cake as Im not a cake gal really. Nick got me a some much needed comfy pants from gap and a few other items. And on Thursday we are going out to eat at Copper Celler or Bonefish for our 8th Anniversary.

8 comments:

Mindy said...

Happy Birthday a day late! I totally meant to call you yesterday, I even had it on my calendar...I'm so sorry! I'm glad you had a good birthday and have fun eating out later this week!

I'm sure you LOVED having your family for Christmas! That is so nice that for once you didn't have to drive!

Sandra said...

on no mindy...we most definitely HAD to drive!! It was the worst trip ever to be honest with you. We drove from 1pm to 1am on Tuesday before christmas and still had not arrived to Waibel's house. We had 5 different times of stopped traffic one being 3 hours and 20 minutes long!!! We had to get a hotel in Batesville IN due to I65 being closed and couldn't get home. So it took us a total of 21 hours to get home and its suppose to be 7 hours!!! ARGHHH!!!

Anonymous said...

happy birthday - and anniversary!

glad you enjoyed the holiday season. we loved getting your Christmas picture. such sweet boys!

love, joanna

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary!

Glad you're back in "Blog Land," as I missed you these last couple of weeks...but totally understand the busy times!

Love,
Jodi Hoffman

Miranda said...

Happy Celebrations! We know what its like having it all in a short span of time since we have very similiar schedules!

Mindy said...

oh my! That is horrible! I can't believe it took you that long to get there! Hopefully not too much longer and you won't have to make the drive anymore. :)

emilykate said...

Happy Birthday! That's so fun that your whole family could come to down for Christmas!

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary!
Love ya,
Stacy