Merry Christmas

What a wonderful Christmas!  We are blessed with 2 beautiful and healthy children and such loving families.  Here are just a few of the many pictures from the day.  A few highlights of what they got:

Caitlin - dollhouse, doll, tons of coloring stuff, vanity, hair accessories, jewelry, & barbies

Hunter- toolbox, car transporter, tractors, cars, tent, remote control bobcat & dump truck

It was a magical day... couldn't have asked for anything more!!

Christmas Eve

 

This was the best picture we could get...

 Christmas Eve started with Mass at Epiphany and the kids were actually pretty good.  We celebrated with appetizers back at our house with both families.  We were blessed to have Grandma & Grandpa Streit come and stay with us on Christmas Eve.  Mom Mom got the kids some Christmas jammies which are always cute.  She also got them new books to read before bed.  Grandma read to Caitlin and Grandpa read to Hunter.  And for once, they both stayed in their beds all night.  It was a Christmas Miracle!!!

Christmas at the Streit's

Chaos!!! (But fun)

Grandpa's present... a new grill!

Everyone was able to make it to the Streit Christmas.  It was a blast.  The kids has so much fun opening all their gifts and playing with the cousins.  Kristen was probably the most fun to watch because she loved everything she got and was so animated about it.  It's always great when all 5 grand kids get to play together.  The adults had fun too!!

SANTA

 Our annual trip to Peoria's Bass Pro Shop to see Santa was a success.  The kids sat on his lap and there was no crying.  Caitlin asked for a new baby doll and Hunter asked him for a toolbox.  They enjoyed walking around the store for awhile and checking out the fish aquarium and cool toys (the hats didn't come home, but a stuffed animal deer and turkey did:)  

After our visit with Santa, we took Grandma, Grandpa, Mom Mom and Pa out to dinner to Davis Brothers Pizza.  We ended the night going through the Festival of Lights.  Pa lets the kids sit on his lap when we look at the lights so they think that's pretty awesome.  It's one of my favorite nights of the holidays!!!!  Can't wait til next year...

Picking the perfect tree

Obsessed with tape measures...he helped daddy measure.

It's not as tall as Matt was hoping for, but this year it might actually be manageable for me to put the lights on.  It's a 3 day process though.  Day 1- get the tree, Day 2- put the lights on, Day 3- decorate it.  It's all worth it though.  It's fun to take the kids to pick it out.