Iowa Christmas

We spent an extended weekend in Iowa celebrating Christmas with Jamie's family - minus the Floridians. :( We all had a great time, and as you'll see from some of my posts - the boys got out of control and did some silly (We don't say stupid at our house anymore - little ears hear everything we are discovering!) things - probably could even be considered dangerous! But it was a good time of staying up WAY too late every night and hanging out. We got back late last night and are ready for 2010 and all it will bring.

A few pics and video from the Christmas program and gift exchange...

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Our attempt to get a picture of the kids in front of the tree...

See, the tongue is a Stinemetz trait...

(one of) Hudson's favorite Christmas presents

And it wasn't even for him...I have a feeling this will be one of our main attractions come spring going down the driveway!

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Stinemetz Christmas

Every year we gather out in Burdett/Hanston, Kansas for the big family Christmas. This was a fun time for Hudson to meet and play with all of his cousins...

The dinnertable at the Christmas dinner. We had 45 people there this year, which is a record.

Hudson playing with his cousin Addison.

Cousin Addison giving Hudson a kiss...

Playing with Cousin Hunter...

The Christmas program...every year we sing carols and read the story of Jesus' birth. This is hte first (since I've been attending anyway) that we have done by candlelight. Hudson loved it - I think he is going to be a pyromaniac...he loves looking at fire!

The picture frame all the grandkids gave Grandma and Grandpa. It has all the grandkids and great grandkids pictures and Bible verses in it.

Christmas Day

Hudson and Jamie waiting for Santa to come....

Jamie took the bow off his head pretty quickly!

Yeah! I'm so excited for my shopping cart!

My family goes to the movies on Christmas Day, so we decided to try it out with Hudson this year. Before the movie started he sat in the chair all by himself and played. Then he slept through all but the last 30 minutes of the movie. A motorcycle race at the end scared him cause it was loud, but other than that he did really good.

We had the family over to try out our new basement after the movie - a little family game of Twister. I didn't last too long! Getting too old!

Christmas Eve

This year we had our Christmas Eve celebration at my mom and dad's since Christin was still recovering from surgery. We usually always meet at the Sawhouse so that was a little different. I was so proud of myself because earlier that day I cleared the memory on both the digital camera and the video camera and charged the batteries on both so I could record every moment of Hudson's first Christmas. Then I stopped at Target on my way to Mom's and dropped the battery to my digital camera in the parking lot and didn't realize it at the time. So I get to my mom's and am unloading the car and realize I don't have it. I was SO upset - ruined my whole night. I was upset enough about it that my dear husband got in the car, drove to Target and found the battery in the parking lot. It hadn't been smashed and wasn't even wet. Put it back in the camera and it still worked. So the holidays weren't ruined!
Hudson was more interested in the bows and wrapping paper than the gifts themselves, but he enjoys opening presents! And he gots LOTS of them!

My cousin-in-law, Dad and brother-in-law playing the first annual rendition of Silent Night.

Guess the pajamas were really red cause the pics all turned out like this - but these are the new pj's my Gammy bought all of the girls.

Garret playing on the Firetruck scooter we got him. He loved it. He immediately jumped on and starting riding around the room giving everyone tickets. I guess he has police and firemen a little confused - but it was cute anyways! He uses his tough, gruff voice when he gives the tickets, which is really cute.

Matching rainjackets - they have a firetruck on the back...

4 Christmases down - one to go

So we got home last night from celebrating Christmas with Jamie's family over the weekend. Jeremy and Alisha and their kids came home with us and the plan was to leave this evening to go to Iowa to spend the rest of the week with his parents up there. However, I woke up at 2 am vomiting and Alisha was sick all night too. To go along with the colds that Jeremy, Bryce, Alisha and Hudson all have. Plus Jamie was just home for lunch and said his stomach was starting to bother him too. So we will not be leaving tonight and hopefully we're feeling up to going tomorrow. If all 4 adults are sick that might not happen though - we need at least 2 drivers!
Flu and cold season - what fun!!