We started off Christmas vacation in MN with (surprise, surprise!) a craft at Grammie's! Check out these angels we created -- can you guess who made each one?
Here's Ellie & Doug all dressed up for Christmas Eve church.
After church on Christmas Eve, we had a big Eiesland gathering out at Uncle Tom & Aunt Julie's. But before the eating and presents started, we wanted to remember my Dad & my aunt Nancy, who died of cancer last year. So we broke out the sparklers and used them to write messages to
Dad & Nancy. It was pretty cool. A good way to pause and remember them, to acknowledge their absence, and to grieve together as a family. And to play with fire, which my dad would have been so happy about. Seriously. For a fireman he was a bit of a pyromaniac.
I promise under normal circumstances I don't allow my children to play with fire.
Even Grandma Alice got in on the sparkler messages.
Then it was inside formass chaos gift opening and lots and lots of eating.
And lots of cars.
Christmas Day we headed over to Chris' brother's house for the Studer Christmas celebration. For some reason we have almost no pictures of Ellie that day, but the boys were happy to make the rounds of lap-sitting and being photographed.
All the Studer grandkids.
And the whole Studer clan (minus our niece Bri's fiance, James).
The rest of our time was spent watching the Weather Channel and trying to figure out when we'd be able to return to SD. It snowed a lot.
We built a snowman and Ellie got a kick out of having the snowman wear Papa's big fur hat.
So that was our Christmas, in an extremely large and picture-filled nutshell. Hopefully by springtime I will get around to blogging about Alex & Maguire's 2nd birthday party.
Here's Ellie & Doug all dressed up for Christmas Eve church.
After church on Christmas Eve, we had a big Eiesland gathering out at Uncle Tom & Aunt Julie's. But before the eating and presents started, we wanted to remember my Dad & my aunt Nancy, who died of cancer last year. So we broke out the sparklers and used them to write messages to
Dad & Nancy. It was pretty cool. A good way to pause and remember them, to acknowledge their absence, and to grieve together as a family. And to play with fire, which my dad would have been so happy about. Seriously. For a fireman he was a bit of a pyromaniac.
I promise under normal circumstances I don't allow my children to play with fire.
Even Grandma Alice got in on the sparkler messages.
Then it was inside for
And lots of cars.
Christmas Day we headed over to Chris' brother's house for the Studer Christmas celebration. For some reason we have almost no pictures of Ellie that day, but the boys were happy to make the rounds of lap-sitting and being photographed.
All the Studer grandkids.
And the whole Studer clan (minus our niece Bri's fiance, James).
The rest of our time was spent watching the Weather Channel and trying to figure out when we'd be able to return to SD. It snowed a lot.
We built a snowman and Ellie got a kick out of having the snowman wear Papa's big fur hat.
And then we ate some more. I am being totally serious when I say the majority of our event planning revolves around making sure we have time to eat all of our traditional Christmas foods. Including Mickey's Pizza. Yum.
So that was our Christmas, in an extremely large and picture-filled nutshell. Hopefully by springtime I will get around to blogging about Alex & Maguire's 2nd birthday party.
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3 comments:
Nice job, Carrie. You covered it well. Love your new background too. Hugs and kisses to the grands! Love to love you all.
Great pix -- and I agree - you covered it all! Doug is especially dashing in his red sweater!
I love all the pics! What a great family you both have. The kids are growing like weeds. I did remember the boys birthday, I have it written on my calendar at work. I love the name Doug!
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