Last Christmases

Dana and I were both home in between Christmas and New Year's. It was so great to be home with the kids, spending time together and getting caught up on things around the house. The week just flew by and I don't know what we were so busy doing, but we must have been doing a lot; I never even took any pictures! We did a couple of movie nights, played with new Christmas toys, cleaned out and reorganized the girls' rooms and caught up on errands, etc.

Thursday we headed to Fergus to do our Christmas celebration with Dana's side.

Crazy Clara!

Thanks for all the gifts, Grandpa & Grandma!

Brynn got her very own sewing machine! Very exciting. She has really gotten into sewing and between the kit she received from my parents and this machine from Dana's parents, along with more accessories from Auntie and Uncle, she is set! I should have gotten a picture of it, but right away she and Grandma got busy making a pillow and blanket for Brynn's new doll.

We also celebrated Uncle John's birthday:

We brought our four-wheeler and we were all outside having some fun in the snow, riding and sledding.

Brynn & Grandma playing dominoes

It's kind of become a Christmas tradition now to go bowling.

Afterward we decided to check out a new pizza place in town....and ordered an exorbitant amount of pizza for the number of people we had. It was so good, though!

On Sunday we had the extended Froemming family Christmas.

Brynn was so disappointed that we had left some of our gifts at Auntie Tessa and Uncle Chad's house, so she wasn't able to play with some of her things last week when we were home. Yesterday when she got off the bus from school, she got right to her crystal making. (Grandpa and Grandma Dietz were kind enough to drop off our stuff on their way to the lake this past weekend. Thanks again!)

Mad scientist!

Hopefully they turn out!

Clara likes to lie on the floor and feverishly scribble. :-)

Comments

theweckerlys said…

Good pics! Can't wait to see the crystal progress this weekend :)

January 5, 2016 at 10:34 PM

Anonymous said…

Fun, fun Christmas!

January 6, 2016 at 8:07 AM

carrington said…

Did ya pick up those spares? LOL Looks like a fun time was had by all!

January 6, 2016 at 8:12 PM

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