Ho Ho Ho! I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas!
We are adjusting back to normalcy after a crazy month of December in the Glur house!
We are finally all healthy, knock on wood! I hope we all stay that way for a long time!
I finally have a picture of our Christmas tree all decked out...
(Pictures just don't to it justice. This is a 12 foot ceiling but doesn't look nearly that tall in the picture.)
We started our Christmas celebrations with Darren's mom and brother and sister and families. We went up to Fargo (that's a story for another day...blizzard...puking child...) the second weekend of December. We got to break in Nate and Char's brand new house as well as take our traditional limo ride around Fargo to check out Christmas lights. We then enjoyed a wonderful lasagna dinner and opened presents. The kids had a great time! Landon still wasn't feeling the best so he wasn't his normal self. Come to find out he had strep this entire time! :( It was quite challenging getting both kids to sleep in the same room at the same time. Here we are in the limo:
Landon and Daddy playing hockey in Nate and Char's basement:
Opening presents...a new loader and dumper:
Next we celebrated with Darren's dad and his wofe Deanna. They came out to watch the kids for an evening so that Darren and I could get our shopping done and enjoy a nice dinner out. They brought Landon a cool new battery-operated Toy Story four-wheeler!
I've done the most holiday baking that I've ever done, even with the challenge of having two little ones at home. Darren was home two nights last week and I took advantage. Addison already likes to help with the baking...lucky me!
For Christmas Eve as well as their "Happy Birthday Baby Jesus" party at daycare I ordered the kids iron -on patches from etsy.com. They were super easy to iron on these shirts and looked absolutely adorable!
On Christmas Eve we went to my Mom and Dad's house for our traditional Hegle/Fouquette gathering. We opened quite a few presents during the day and then ate lasagna and the works with our whole family. After everyone left we continued with the presents! The kids were verrrrrrry spoiled this year, just like every year!
Addison and Blake like to share Papa's lap:
Grandma Rita and Papa Bear with all five grandkids:
Landon and Daddy playing hockey in Nate and Char's basement:
Opening presents...a new loader and dumper:
Next we celebrated with Darren's dad and his wofe Deanna. They came out to watch the kids for an evening so that Darren and I could get our shopping done and enjoy a nice dinner out. They brought Landon a cool new battery-operated Toy Story four-wheeler! 
I've done the most holiday baking that I've ever done, even with the challenge of having two little ones at home. Darren was home two nights last week and I took advantage. Addison already likes to help with the baking...lucky me!
For Christmas Eve as well as their "Happy Birthday Baby Jesus" party at daycare I ordered the kids iron -on patches from etsy.com. They were super easy to iron on these shirts and looked absolutely adorable!
On Christmas Eve we went to my Mom and Dad's house for our traditional Hegle/Fouquette gathering. We opened quite a few presents during the day and then ate lasagna and the works with our whole family. After everyone left we continued with the presents! The kids were verrrrrrry spoiled this year, just like every year!Addison and Blake like to share Papa's lap:
Grandma Rita and Papa Bear with all five grandkids:(Jackson-3, Lilly-2 (almost 3), Landon-22 months, Blake-7 months, and Addison-5 months)
Our annual family picture next to the tree:
Our Little Family:
Santa was definitely very good to the kids this year...look at this stash:
Our annual family picture next to the tree:(Jess, Chad, Lilly, and Blake...Ashley, Loren and Jackson...Kristin, Darren, Landon, and Addison)
My how our family has grown in four short years!!!
Our Little Family:
Santa was definitely very good to the kids this year...look at this stash:(He may have gone a little overboard, but hey they were good this year!)
Christmas morning we woke the kids up to see what Santa had brought for them! Boy were they excited! Here's Addison playing with her new "Sing-a-ma-jig!"
Landon displaying the cute ornaments that he made for Mommy and Daddy at daycare:
The kids ready to head out to Auntie Susan's house for Christmas lunch:
We went to my Aunt Susan's house in Annandale and had our traditional chow mein lunch (can we say yummy???) and then went home to relax with my mom and dad with some Papa Murphy's take and bake for supper. It was quite an exhausting few days!
One of the best presents that Santa brought this year was a huge jumping castle filled with balls! Santa was at our house until after 3 am inflating it for the kids...well worth it when we saw the looks on Landon's face as he jumped in it on Christmas morning!
Here they are enjoying it the next day:
Christmas morning we woke the kids up to see what Santa had brought for them! Boy were they excited! Here's Addison playing with her new "Sing-a-ma-jig!"
Landon displaying the cute ornaments that he made for Mommy and Daddy at daycare:
The kids ready to head out to Auntie Susan's house for Christmas lunch:
We went to my Aunt Susan's house in Annandale and had our traditional chow mein lunch (can we say yummy???) and then went home to relax with my mom and dad with some Papa Murphy's take and bake for supper. It was quite an exhausting few days!
One of the best presents that Santa brought this year was a huge jumping castle filled with balls! Santa was at our house until after 3 am inflating it for the kids...well worth it when we saw the looks on Landon's face as he jumped in it on Christmas morning!Here they are enjoying it the next day:
I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! We are looking forward to the new year! Can't believe it will soon be 2011! We are already thinking about Landon's 2nd birthday party coming up in February!
Happy New Year!
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