Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Celebrating Christmas Abundantly!

We are truly blessed to have so many friends and family to celebrate our saviour with! This year we had seven gatherings to attend! I know, it still makes my head spin and it's been over for weeks.
We first got together with our good friends the Drapers for a fun dinner at Tito Macaroni's and a Christmas light cruise in C'dalene.


Then a few days later celebrated again with my Mom's family (awesome prime rib dinner!).


Come Christmas eve we took some time to play in the snow- finally. Ben had been plowing so much we hadn't had much time as famiy to enjoy the crazy amount that had fallen. (It was like manna from heaven for us!)

We then had another amazing prime rib dinner with Ben's family and had breakfast together Christmas morning. Of course we had to have Christmas morning first with our own brood.










Then it was more family time with my parents and sister the rest of the day!


The day after Christmas we hosted my Dads family get together and then finished off the craziness with another party at Ben's parents on New Years day with his dad's family. I'm seriously glad the holidays are done! Now it's back to the gym and back to reality!

Monday, January 12, 2009

Hello Charlie!



We have a new member of the fam! Monday before Christmas we adopted a cuddly, cute kitten. The kids promptly agreed to name him ' Charlie Brown Peterson'. Too funny! I was seriously expecting suggestions like sugar, princess or spongebob so I immediately jumped at the name Charlie. He has been FANTASIC with the kiddos. Really. Very rarely does he react when they terrorize him. He even likes the kids- you'll see in the photos...