Dec 31, 2008

5 Christmases!

We spent the afternoon of the 24th walking around downtown, from union station to the US Capitol Building to the US botanical Gardens...



The whole city is getting ready for President Obama's inauguration...Here you can see the massive stands being built for The Inauguration....




At the Botanical Gardens they had a replica of the National mall, with the Buildings and monuments made out of sticks and leaves! This is the Capitol Building...sorry for the poor phot quality, it was my camera phone!


We have lots of family, and lots of family means lots of christmases! 5 to be exact....

Christmas celebration started on Christmas eve at Dale's parents house...we had a soup bar, and lots of yummy desserts! The kids opened gifts and then Rudolph appeared in the back yard, so we had to jump in the car and get the kids to bed before Rudolph got to our house!

(see Rudolph's Shiney nose?!) (His antlers hit the window last year!)


Christmas morning we woke up and got the kids from their rooms (they had already been awake playing games in their rooms for awhile) and waited for the Christmas lights to turn on at 7:24 am before the kids ran down the stairs to see what santa had left!







After a wonderful morning with our little family, Dale's parents and siblings came over and we spent the day eating GREAT food and opening more gifts!



on Saturday, my siblings and their families came over (minus my little sister Sherry and family) ...we had another great day of good food (Chipotle bar) and opening MORE gifts! The weather was nice and the kids were able to play outside for awhile!





On the 28th Grandma Holder came over with Forreste and we opened MORE gifts and had a great time with them...
So tonight we will celebrate new years eve by staying at home, watching movies and eating MORE good food...(it will actually be of a healthy nature!) I truely love this time of year and am so thankful for my terrific family!

6 comments:

couplabz said...

LOVE the picture of the kids on the landing!

Dayle said the cutest thing today, 'Mom is Uncle Dale going to come to my baptism, because Daddy would be very sad if he didn't'

Denise said...

Wow, I thought we were busy! I just have to ask, is it the picture or shouldn't the reindeer's nose be red?

Lissa said...

It's the picture (my camera phone again!) Rudolph's nose is very very red!

Cindy said...

I saw Rudolph and his nose was very red. Thanks for all you did to make my Christmas wonderful. We should have taken a picture on Christmas Eve. WHAT is wrong with me?

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