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New Years


I'm pretty behind in posting this, but here we go!
We celebrated Christmas with my side of the family over New Years. Tessa kindly hosted us and we had a great time cooking Chinese, opening our gifts and arm wresting one another. That's right, arm wrestling. I got smoked by everyone. :-(


En route to auntie and uncle's house!

The kids had fun playing together, as usual.


Yum! All the food was super yummy; the egg rolls were my fav.





Brynn made this MN nail art in school and gave it to Grandpa and Grandma as a gift for the lake. It turned out so cool!


Cindy had Dana's name in our gift exchange and gave him some nicely-wrapped money. :-)








Clara loves gum and was so excited to receive her fav flavor.


Brynn received a lot of Harry Potter gifts which she was very excited about, of course.




 Weckerlys gave her a beautiful Hogwarts snow globe that even played the Harry Potter theme song. She said it was her favorite gift from Christmas.




I tried to Instagram Live our arm wrestling tournament which turned out to be a terrible idea because I had no way to save it onto my phone or anywhere apparently. Such a bummer. I did take this video of Chad matched up against Mom. I guess my resolution for 2019 should be to do some weight lifting.



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