Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Christmas Day at Uncle Rick & Aunt Diane's!

This year Christmas was a little different for my extended family. My parents went to Colorado to spend time with Twyla and her family, and Becky and her family headed to Florida to celebrate Christmas with Mickey Mouse! :) The rest of the extended family also had plans of their own, and so my sweet Aunt Diane invited us to her home for a Christmas brunch! Unfortunately cousin Dave had to work, but the six of us spent a wonderful afternoon together (Rick, Diane, Mark and the four of us). It was such a treat! Diane really went all out for all of us, and our boys.

We ate egg bake, french toast bake, fresh fruit, lefse, and cardamom bread at her beautifully decorated table. She had an assortment of juices to choose from and sugared the rim of each fancy glass! :) I brought a tray of Christmas goodies, and we ate those as we sipped on our choice of Russian tea or hot cocoa! :)

She surprised us with gifts for each one of us. She also had a craft table set up for us to make a family of snowmen wrapped Hershey bars. We had such a wonderful time talking, and being creative with the boys!

We arrived at 11:30am and stayed until about 4:15pm. A lot longer than any of us expected, but we were having such a good time, the time completely flew by. THANK YOU Rick and Diane! We are truly blessed to have such a loving family!

It is so special how a small craft can bring on so many laughs and help make so many memories!



ET got pretty creative with his snowman. Nate had fun sticking a ton of buttons on his art, and then had just as much fun picking them all off. :)



ET took these next three pictures. He is getting pretty good with the camera!



ET requested Uncle Rick help him make muscle arms for his snowman. :)

My family of snowmen!

Cousin Mark made a replica of Uncle Rick! We all had a good laugh looking at the hair of this snowman! :) If anyone knows Rick, it looks just like him in his earlier days.


This is my favorite Christmas picture of the boys! I absolutely adore seeing ET place his arm around Nate! :)






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