Christmas Photo Gallery

Right on time, I know. Thanks for your patience. Here are some highlights from our family Christmas celebrations.

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We began at home in Wisconsin a few days before we drove to KC (just enough time to play with our new toys for a while, but not too far away from Christmas.) We celebrated with beef tenderloin, sweet potatoes and stuffing, none of which the kids actually ate. We opened gifts later that night. We got video of this, but not too many good pictures. Just Joe excited about his “Math Circus” video. Yay, educational entertainment!

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At Mom's side, we opened gifts Christmas Eve morning, had a grand dinner, took naps and headed to 4pm Mass. Here is Luke examining his cool new shirt. "It looks like my size!"

Luke: "These plastic covers are so hard to get off"
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Joe’s favorite toy – a tin Cars lunch box. Who would have thought? He tells us that he can't wait to take it to school so he can share his peanut butter sandwiches with his friends.
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Patrick: "Whoa! Is this one mine?"
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The cousins – Joe, Libby, Kolbe (back) Luke, Patrick (front)
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Not all of us could make it to Mass that evening. Jeff's father was in the hospital, so their family went to see him. Here's my parents with my sister Janelle.
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We left that night to head up north to Scott's parents. The boys LOVE hopping into bed in the mornings with Grammie and Granddad, although they seem to commandeer the entire bed. This was our grand plan to keep Christmas morning from starting at 6am. It worked!

Breakfast in bed on Christmas morning. Hear no evil, See no evil, Speak no…wait… Luke didn’t get the memo.
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That’s better, Luke.
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Patrick: “Man, Santa was good to me!”
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The twins check out their cool new Wiggles video from Santa.
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Joe was pretty excited about the Thomas and Henry engines from Santa
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Luke with a bow on his rear. What a happy ending!