Holiday Vacation!

Christmas and New Years have come and gone and we had a great vacation together! It was fun having Ella home from school and Ragnar having some time off. Even more exciting was having Daphne, Ragnar's sister come to visit us for the holidays! We also learned that my brother Chris and his wife are having a girl and that Marisa and Ethan are expecting their second child in August. So fun!
Christmas morning we had a nice time relaxing and opening presents.

Ella was excited because she got a camera and pet shops.

Cavin also got a camera and legos and many other things

Check out everyones morning hair!

Channing just being her happy self.

Daphne got here the night before and we had a nice Christmas eve and we were glad to have her with us as we woke up Christmas morning.

Christmas Day was a little strange this year as it was on a Sunday and we had to stop and get ready for church, but we went to my parents and celebrated there and enjoyed puzzling and dinner and watching the kids open more presents!

With Daphne here we went to Chuck E Cheese which my kids love and they had these sketches done:)


Daphne went with us to the park....

and was great at teaching Ella "Just Dance" on the wii. They are definitely the dancers in the family!

Thanks to Ragnar for the tickets and my parents for watching the kids, Daphne and I got to go to the Rockets season opener against the Spurs. It was a nice evening and they won by 20! Yeah! I think the week I got told 3 times that Daphne and I look like the siblings :) Do you see it??


We sure are grateful Daphne spent her precious semester break with us. We had a lot of fun and already miss her!

Next came New Years. Happy 2012!

We spent the Monday after New Years with my parents and sister Natalie. We went bowling and to Chilis, and then we made smores and hot dogs by their new fire pit. It was a nice day!


We are lucky to have such a great family!

It was a wonderful Christmas vacation!