Merry Christmas!! Hope everyone had a safe holiday and are recovering from all the festivities! I know I am glad I had today to rest up a little bit before heading back to work tomorrow!

We had a nice Christmas weekend up in Ringsted with my family. We left Des Moines Thursday afternoon when I got off work and stayed with Jason, Jill & the boys Thursday night in Forest City. Friday morning we got up and headed to Ringsted to my parent’s. Saturday we had Christmas at my Grandma Martha’s with the Miller gang at noon, went to Christmas Eve Church at 5pm and then headed to Mom & Dad’s for Christmas there. It was a busy day, but was nice to be able to celebrate with everyone.

Sunday we had Christmas at my Grandma & Grandpa Oleson’s house, but unfortunately neither my mom or myself were feeling too great, so we had to miss out on the gathering. But, Dad, Jason and Anya made it over and celebrated for us. When they got back, we loaded up the Equinox (to absolutely maximum capacity) and headed back to Des Moines. We were all exhausted when we got home, so we pretty much unloaded the car into the middle of the living room, showered and crashed into bed.

So, Anya survived her first Christmas season and handled all the attention very well. She wasn’t really too sure what to do with the wrapped gifts, so she did what she does with almost everything within arms reach…tried putting them in her mouth! Between Christmas last weekend with Jason’s family and this weekend with my family, she got so many toys, dolls, games, videos, clothes etc.. we are going to have to add on to our house just to make room for everything she got! She is pretty fascinated with all her new treasures and Jason & I are pretty fascinated watching her play with them. We feel very lucky to have been able to share Christmas with both of our families and celebrate Anya’s first Christmas with them….we have truly been blessed to have loving families and such a special little girl. Couldn’t ask for a better Christmas present than family.

Well, better head to bed as it will be morning sooner than I want it to be. Here are some of our Christmas pictures from this last weekend. Enjoy!