So, we had a lovely holiday! Christmas Eve we spent with Chris’s family in Muscatine (though we missed the Laughead get together which we are very sad about… sorry guys!!). Christmas day was spent in West Liberty with my family. The kids were happy with all of their gifts and I think we all had a great time!
Audrey with Great Grandma Wheeler
Audrey and Aunt Sharon
Michael and his Bakugan
Our Christmas breakfast of weird but tasty holiday bread, eggs, bacon, pancakes, and oranges.
Chris loves his nuts
Audrey loved her hair straightener.
Michael and MORE Bakugan
Audrey the rock star
All in all, the holidays were good to us, Merry Christmas to all!!!
We hope this day finds you happy and healthy and enjoying friends and family!!!
Love,
The Wheelers
It’s that wonderful time of the year when the Thraps travel down to Muscatine for the beginning of the Christmas holiday and we get them FIRST so we can celebrate our little group Christmas together! They arrived last night and even though we worried about getting the kids hyped up, we decided to go ahead and do presents!!!
My kids made out like BANDITS!!! Audrey got a cute frame for her room and a DS game…
Audrey opens her first Thrap Christmas present… a pretty frame for her newly remodeled room!
Audrey’s very own DS game! Lilo and Stitch!
Michael opens his Thrap gift, a DS game!
Chris got some new CROCS for when he is done with nursing school (we are SO excited about that in just ONE MORE YEAR!!!) and Kate got her favorite… a Hobby Lobby gift certificate AND an eNV!!! The HL gc is from Becca and the phone was a group gift from Chris AND the Thraps! I am THRILLED!
Now, we got the Thrap family a GROUP gift this year because we knew there was something that their whole family was REALLY, REALLY wanting. This summer on a fluke run to Best Buy the guys found this game called “SingStar” for PS2. It’s kind of like karaoke but with the music videos and the real songs. We fell in LOVE! We also went out and purchased the SingStar Pop, SingStar 80’s, SingStar 90’s, and Josh got SingStar Rocks throughout the summer! The only downside was that the Thraps did NOT have a PS2, so when we would visit we would lug ours and whenever they would visit us we would SingStar it up! Sooooo… when I was perusing Craigslist this fall and came across somone selling their PS2 system, I thought… HEY… I could get ALL of the Thraps just ONE present instead of trying to find something individual for all of them! So, last night, they happily opened their Christmas present from the Wheelers! A PS2 system, the two games that they had purchased (that we had been housing since we were the ones with the PS2) AND an EXTRA set of the microphones for the game!!!
I think it was a Merry Thrapmas Christmas for EVERYONE!!!
So tonight we took some time to set up the Christmas tree! We found some Christmas music and pulled out our Craigslist tree that I sustained moderate injuries and humiliation for and set it up. I must admit that I was dubious about having a fiber optic tree because I thought it would look cheap and silly, but we were all pleasantly surprised that having a fiber optic tree negates having to have lights which is just easier anyway!
We had lots of fun going through our ornaments and talking about where they come from. It was really neat for Chris and I to hang up our “First Christmas Together 1997″ and for each of the kids to hang up their “Baby’s First Christmas” ornaments.
After the tree was up, the kids wanted to pretend like it was Christmas day and have me take pictures of them jumping around excited and then taking pictures of them pretending to make snow angels in our carpet (which, of course, was pretending to be snow).
Decorating the tree
It’s so hard to decide where to put the ornaments!
Taking great care to hang the ornaments
Making more pretend snow angels in the pretend snow!
