A Florida Christmas!

For the first time in our lives, we celebrated Christmas away from the cold and snow. Grandpa and Grandma B also ventured down to the tropics to celebrate with us. This was their first Christmas away from Minnesota as well. We had such a great time doing all the holiday like events...... baking cookies, opening presents, driving around to see lights, snowball fights with packing peanuts, going to see Santa, GOLFING, BEACHING and going to the park! We missed Uncle Danny and Uncle Adam terribly! Grandma and Grandpa Schipper celebrated Christmas morning with us over the web cam. We got to open presents with them over the computer which was so awesome! Gracyn loved her new bike and shopping cart. It was so much fun to see Gracyn all crazy opening presents and talking about Santa. It's hard to imagine that next year that we will have another peanut crawling around and Gracyn even crazier than ever!

Grandpa and Grandma B headed home on Sunday. We ended the visit with a trip to the park where Gracyn insisted wearing her tutu, a Christmas gift from Claudia. We also had our first pizza at Chucky Cheese! We had such a blast watching Gracyn and Daddy on the rides. It was hard to see Grandpa and Grandma leave...... even harder for Grandpa to leave his chair on the outside patio.

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. We can't wait to hear all about it! Happy New Year!

Dahline Comes to Visit

Our good friend Jim made it down for a quick weekend visit to catch up with us. Although is was very short, around 40 hours, we had such a great time. The UMD Bulldog football team pulled off a victory which was broadcast on ESPN2. The boys headed to a local pub to catch all the action and eat some very, very, very good buffalo wings. GO DOGS!!!!

feeling better

Everyone was feeling healthy this weekend! Saturday we finally decorated the tree. Gracyn had a blast looking at all of the ornaments. The bottom of our tree consists of all the wooden and plastic ornaments. We learned the hard way! I also was able to finish up making our Christmas stockings! Gracyn is loving her snowman! I finally had a relaxing weekend and feel revived! Luke on the other hand has been studying for finals this week all weekend long. He will be done mid-next week and then his boyfriend, Dahline, will be visiting us from Minnesota. We are all excited to see him! I also posted some belly pics. As you can see, I'm getting HUGE! Only 3 1/2 months to go.....