Tinkles on the Papa!

With Caterpillar being on shut down the week between Christmas and New Year's, I have been fortunate enough to have Jeremy home with Mila and me!!  We have LOVED having Papa home to play (and I have been able to get a few things done a little faster with an extra set of eyes during the day)  Yesterday I was getting her bath ready and Jeremy was helpful enough to get her clothes and diaper off and bring her into the bathroom.  Of course it takes forever to fill the bath tub and apparently Mila got a chill.  I was turned away and I heard Jeremy let out a shriek and bust out laughing...I turned around to see this...

Good thing Papa was in an old shirt!

We love bath time!!

Christmas celebration with the Vogel family

On the 29th we celebrated Christmas with the Vogel family at our house.  I had so much fun cooking a large meal for everyone.  I hope someday soon we live closer so we can have everyone over more often!  It is so great to have a house full of family.  Mila had plenty of previous practice opening gifts and knew exactly what to do yesterday!

Full house!

Grandma Theresa and Mila

Great Grandpa enjoying his "Gone fishing, be back for deer season" sign

Mila pondering what present to open first

Grandpa Rick and Aunt Danielle

Christmas afternoon with the Ericsson family

Christmas lunch was spent with my family in Brimfield.  It was a very special for Mila because she got to meet her Uncle Michael and Aunt Serenedy for the first time!  They were able to fly in from Seattle, WA for a few days and celebrate Christmas with the family!  Unfortunatly, Mila was a little crabby (okay, A LOT) by this point.  She had missed her naps and refused to go to anyone else but Jeremy or me.  She was able to enjoy opening presents and gave everyone smiles from our arms.

Climbing on top of the presents...and eating tissue paper!

Forget the new toys...I'll play with these old ones!

A few days later we went back to my parent and Mila was in a much better mood...

but I still couldn't catch a smile!

Christmas Morning with the Lohnes Family

One of our FAVORITE Christmas traditions is Christmas breakfast with Jeremy's mom and (step) dad's family.  We all get up super early to make it to Mason City for a FULL spread of bacon, eggs, sausage, biscuits & gravy, cinnamon rolls, and waffles and family chatter!  This year we had an extra TWO grandbabies (brining the total to a whopping 7) AND a very special FIRST birthday to celebrate for Lydia!  We enjoyed watching everyone open presents, the snow fall, and Luke pulling his tooth!  Too bad he won't be getting his gold tooth...

All dressed up and ready to go celebrate!

Lydia and her new chair...Lizzy sporting her new vest...Luke checking out his new tractor

Mila giving Luke kisses...Luke's missing tooth...Mila's new Little Miss Matched goodies

Aunt Ali and Kelsi

All the grandbabies!

Lydia was born last year Christmas day!  After we were finished with all the gifts we sang her Happy Birthday and opened birthday presents!

Not so sure about this cupcake! 

Sooo Cute!!!

Christmas Eve eve and Eve...

Our Christmas celebrations extended across three families, a close friend, and several days. 

On Wednesday Mila received her first gift from "Uncle" Rudy, a close friend of ours.  He recognized Mila's love for electronics and got her a little laptop!  She loves it!!!  We also took Mila to pick out a few toys to donate.  Our mission for Christmas is that she understands it is more about giving and helping others than the number of gifts she receives.

Jeremy and I celebrated Christmas with Mila on Thursday evening.  She had so much fun dressing up in her Christmas PJs and ripping off the paper.  She loves her new jammies, electronic book, sippy cup, and FIRST dolly!

Merry Christmas!

We hope you all have a safe and blessed Christmas!

This is going to be fun!

This evening I was wrapping a few birthday presents for this weekend. Mila was helping me and decided to get into all the paper. She gave me a GREAT preview of what Christmas is going to be like and it's going to FUN! A day full of ripping and eating paper!