Thursday, January 01, 2009

Christmas in Council Bluffs!

Grace and Toree playing in the balls.

The kids playing in Grace's ball pit.

Grace playing games in daddy chair. At least pretending she is, so cute.

Cole couldn't wait for Papa Juhl to get done braiding his rope.

Grace and Toree playing.

Trying to measure the girls back to back but they are not cooperating. 

Gracie hanging out with aunt Teena playing with Toree's john deere music box.

Grace the DJ of music and cousin Toree dancing.

Uncle Wade excited about his new atlas, now he will know where he is going, hehe.

Uncle Clayton all excited about Christmas.

Papa and Grandma Juhl opening their gift, they love their new camera.

Grace and Toree opening gifts.

Grace excited about her new little people toys.

Gracie with her Grandma Juhl.

Grace and Toree checking out Grace's new baby dolls, they were both giving the babies kisses.

Jonah likes his new buggy car from us.

Toree likes her new baby stroller from us.

Uncle Clayton with Grace and Toree.

The night of the 26th we celebrated Christmas with my family at my parents. It was so cute to watch Grace and her cousin Toree open gifts. They would both start opening their own gifts and then notice the other one had their gift open first and go check out the other ones gift instead of finishing opening their own gift. They kept going back and forth. Grace also started squealing when she opened her gifts. It was so much fun to hear her little squeal when she opened a gift and saw what it was. Everyone even got to take time to come over and play at our house.

Christmas in Algona!

Playing Dominoes!

Gracie being cute.

Happy little Brayden.

Our #1 draft pick!

The boys playing dominoes.

Andrew, Grace, Brayden, and Holly on Christmas.

Trying to get pics of Brayden and Grace in their Christmas outfits.

Grace trying to give Brayden some love.

Grace and mommy playing dominoes.

Grace giving Oma kisses.

Little Brayden Santa

Brayden with Oma Christmas morning.

Everyone loving each other with big hugs.

Everyone looking for the pickle on the christmas tree to see who gets to open a gift first.

Gracie's and Brayden's new growth charts from Oma and Papa Harley.

Oma's new silverware which she was excited to get.

The guys video taping everything.

Papa Harley really loves his new Guitar Hero figure we got him.

Grace opening her new shopping cart from Uncle Andrew, Aunt Holly, and cousin Brayden.

Chris in his new big feet pajamas.

Grace helping Uncle Dustin with his lotto tickets to see if he won any money.

Gracie saying hi to her cousin Brayden.

Grace and Uncle Dustin sporting their santa hats.

Grace loves her new chair from Oma and Papa Harley.

Grace like the box also that her chair came in.

Oma with Grace and Cole.

What are you up to Gracie?

Christmas eve we traveled to Algona to celebrate Christmas with Chris's family. We got to spend that night and all of Christmas day at Chris's parents house. Then we had to leave friday to head back to Council Bluffs to celebrate Christmas with my family. Thank god we had good weather to travel.

Christmas @ Home!

Grace riding her harley, she is going to go find santa.

Grace loves her new piano from santa.

Grace's new kitchen!

Grace checking out the things that came with her kitchen.

Gracie waiting patiently for her new kitchen to be put together.

Grace checking out her new kitchen after it was all put together.

Grace and daddy playing with the new kitchen together.

Dad loves his new chair.

Grace loves the new chair also.

Grace using daddy's new chair to sit and talk to Oma and Papa Harley on xbox live.

Daddy and Grace enjoying the new chair together.

As busy as we were running from family christmas to family christmas we ended up splitting up a couple days to open gifts here at home for just us. The sunday before christmas I let Grace and dad get there big gifts. Then the Saturday morning after christmas we open the rest of our gifts, more like Grace open her gifts from Santa. Grace's big gift this year was her Kitchen set, which she loves. Dad got a boomchair for gaming and watching movies, Chris loves his new chair and so does Gracie. Gracie is always climbing up in the chair when dad is not looking. I got a beautiful necklace with Grace's birthstone in it. We had a very nice Christmas.