Merry Christmas!

Tonight we celebrated Christmas with Beppe, Pakka, Uncle Archie, Aunt Michelle and Jade. We missed not having Uncle AJ and Aunt Bonnie with us this year. We traditionally celebrate together on Christmas eve. We'll be in Iowa this year and Archie and Michelle will have moved to Fort Riley, Kansas by then. Only a few more days with them... : ( We had a great time with the traditional fondue. We fondued meat in oil and also bread in Alfredo sauce. Yum! We loved watching the kids open up their presents... especially Jade. She would unwrap and box and get all excited say..."A Square!!!" (the shape of the box) ...or "A triangle!!!" (for the rectangles). We wouldn't have needed to put anything inside of them. Quinn was thrilled with a Monopoly game and Nerf gun. Madison got a Webkinz cat and jewelry and the Nintendo-DS game of "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" Fitting since she's in 5th grade! We got Jade a Dora scooter and it was so cute to watch her help her daddy put it together and then figure out how to work it. She really liked Madison's help for her "motor power". She is 2 1/2 and at such a fun age. We took Madison, Quinn and Jade to Olan Mills to get their pictures taken this afternoon and they all did so great! The pictures are due to be back on Christmas eve but we'll be in Iowa already so I guess we'll get these Christmas pictures when we get back. Oh well.

We got 4-5 inches of snow today... it's starting to look like a winter wonderland!

Silent Night,

Leah