Our christmas festivities started a bit early this year by traveling to Minnesota for my grandparents(seated in the middle) 70th wedding anniversary!!! AMAZING to be married that long and to both be living! God has blessed them so much and I just love them to pieces! This picture is of my grandparents with their 8 children!
This is sweet Jayla and little Liam zonked out on the trip home!! Cute little sleeping buddies. It was nice having Jason ,Joy and Jayla with us because it kept nick and I company and Liam had a playmate in the back seat. Elijah and Caden rode with my parents.
Caden had a christmas program at school. He did a good job and sang very well. I found it pretty cute, but his hands stayed in his pockets the ENTIRE TIME!!!Pathetic I know, but I just realized I do not have any pictures of our Harold Gutwein Christmas which was on Friday night. I think I might have to find my dear aunt joan and see what she has of it. Wow...I am so disappointed!!
Gutwein Christmas was on the Saturday before christmas. Here is our dinner table. We always start our meal off with French Onion soup. Delish! Joy, Tricia and I got creative and made place card settings. They turned out pretty darn cute and we decided to save them and use them for years to come:).
This is the kids table out in the kitchen. Not nearly as decorated, but Im sure you know why? :).
Present time and stocking stuffers....kids all lined up to take turns opening their stockings. Not sure there is any room left for the future grandkids though cause this room was PACKED!!! Guess we will have to have two rows pretty soon. I think Jayla kind of started the second row this year:).
Then on Christmas day(sunday) we had our christmas. It was fun to celebrate Christ's birth on the actual day with my dear family. Here are my sweet boys at dinner. I think this is one of my favorite pictures of them. Liam actually looks like he loves his brothers:). BTW, the kids had sparkling grape juice...no worries!!
Stocking time! I wrap each stuffer and I think that makes it a bit more fun for the kids. More to unwrap!
Elijah and Caden enjoying their fondue (our family tradition we started several years ago).
Gutwein Christmas was on the Saturday before christmas. Here is our dinner table. We always start our meal off with French Onion soup. Delish! Joy, Tricia and I got creative and made place card settings. They turned out pretty darn cute and we decided to save them and use them for years to come:).
This is the kids table out in the kitchen. Not nearly as decorated, but Im sure you know why? :).
Present time and stocking stuffers....kids all lined up to take turns opening their stockings. Not sure there is any room left for the future grandkids though cause this room was PACKED!!! Guess we will have to have two rows pretty soon. I think Jayla kind of started the second row this year:).
Then on Christmas day(sunday) we had our christmas. It was fun to celebrate Christ's birth on the actual day with my dear family. Here are my sweet boys at dinner. I think this is one of my favorite pictures of them. Liam actually looks like he loves his brothers:). BTW, the kids had sparkling grape juice...no worries!!
Stocking time! I wrap each stuffer and I think that makes it a bit more fun for the kids. More to unwrap!
Elijah and Caden enjoying their fondue (our family tradition we started several years ago).
Liam enjoyed his fondue as well, except most of the time you found his stick on the table and him drinking his fondue!! Gotta love that chocolate!!
Waibel Christmas was on Monday night. Family picture in front of the tree. A yearly thing we do:)
Each of the boys got a fun hat from mom and dad waibel. This picture however of Elijah is of a hat he got from Avery. He loves it and wears it shopping with me:). I get several looks!
Liam and his monkey hat. It is just so cute!! I love it because it keeps his ears warm!!
Caden and his dinasour(??) hat. It was hard to tell if it was a dinasour or a dragon? Either way, he looks pretty cute in it.
Waibel Christmas was on Monday night. Family picture in front of the tree. A yearly thing we do:)
Each of the boys got a fun hat from mom and dad waibel. This picture however of Elijah is of a hat he got from Avery. He loves it and wears it shopping with me:). I get several looks!
Liam and his monkey hat. It is just so cute!! I love it because it keeps his ears warm!!
Caden and his dinasour(??) hat. It was hard to tell if it was a dinasour or a dragon? Either way, he looks pretty cute in it.