Our Family: Holiday Photos

I know I'm very behind...but here are some of our photos and a brief summary of our Christmas holiday. We took a road trip to Green Bay to celebrate with our extended family. We celebrated Christmas Eve with the the B's and Christmas Day with the V's. Ella and Grace both received wonderful Christmas gifts and we are so thankful to everyone for their generosity. We also met up with friends during our trip. We had a fun get-together with Chris and Gina, complete with a traditional Green Bay fish fry. Unfortunately for us, their beautiful Maya didn't arrive until the day we left town so we weren't able to meet her on this trip. We also had a first of many playdates with Ben and Jack, in which Mommy had fun catching up with Angie and Marc and we watched the Packers close out the frustrating season with a win over the winless Detroit Lions. Jeff happened to be at that game, witnessing history of the first 0-16 team. Other than that, we spent a lot of time with the girls' grandparents, uncles and aunt, and other members of our extended family. Grace got to meet her 3 great grandparents for the first time. There was a TON of snow in Green Bay and Ella had her first experience "playing" in the snow. There was so much of it that she had trouble walking around. Daddy did enjoy teaching her to throw snowballs at Mommy though. We came back to Minnesota before New Years and had a quiet New Years Eve at home. The holidays were a blast, but also a little hectic so it is kind of nice to be settling back into our routines. We hope everyone else had a great Christmas and Happy 2009!