Christmas Celebration

The trees, decorations and lights were taken down many weeks ago, and I'm just now getting our Christmas photos posted! Oh well - at least it's not Valentine's day yet! And it's never too late to celebrate the birth of our Lord, of course!

We spent the Christmas holiday enjoying lots of special family time!

Christmas Eve Morning with Brian's side of our family:

What? Uncle Greg's phone isn't one of my Christmas gifts?!

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Christmas Eve Evening with both sides of our family!

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After a beautiful service which included candle lighting, we let Owen try blowing out a candle. He loved it - and we relit the candle several times as he kept asking to do it "again" !

Christmas Eve Morning with Linnea's side of the family:

It's Christmas morning? What does that mean?

Stockings! And mine was filled with tractors, trucks and cars - my favorite!

Playing cars on my new "cars" table from grandma & grandpa

I still love stacking!

Opening the many generous presents from my loving family

Celebrating the gift of baby #2

Evidence of an emerging "baby-bump"

Lots of laughter and silliness!

Proudly wearing our new OPH sweatshirts, supporting Blake & Angie's restaurant in Puyallup

As our Christmas gift to Owen, we converted our bonus room into a playroom! This playroom has already proven to be a wonderful blessing allowing for hours of fun, and with a sliding door to our backyard we anticipate lots of inside and outside play this spring/summer!

After all of the wonderful Christmas festivities, we spent a very low-key and relaxing New Year's weekend in Black Butte Ranch with Linnea's parents. A perfect way to wrap up 2010, and kick off 2011!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of our dear family and friends!