2012-End of the Year Wrap Up-Part 2

Christmas with the Moore's and the Salfer's 

The weekend after Christmas brought us to our parents for each sides Christmas celebrations.  First it was my side.  All of us were together, roads were good, no one was sick and Uncle Matt brought his snowmobiles!  That was a nice treat for the kids.  Everyone suited up for the trek out to the big hill for some sledding, except Jack, Mom and I.  The kids had a blast!  They also enjoyed playing with their new toys and just being together.  We stayed the night, which is always interesting, but all went ok and the kids did get a little sleep.  :)

Mr Jack Jack!  He's a busy guy!

Cousin Love

Some of the clan

The next day after a yummy but not too filling breakfast, we headed over to the Salfer side.  Kind of the same chaos, just that the kids are bigger!  We enjoyed a wonderfully delicious meal and some awesome desserts.  The kids pitched in to get the room cleaned up so they could open presents.  It's quite the routine at the Salfer Christmas.  All the presents are lined up according to kid, Grandma passes them out and the kids have to sit in the middle of the circle to open their gift so we all can see.  This year was particularly fun to watch because Great Grandkids, Spencer and Khloe were really into opening and there were some girlfriends/boyfriends too.  And they had to sit in the middle of the circle and open their gift too!!  In the afternoon, the kids played Clue and Cards.  The adults enjoyed each others company while snitching Christmas candy that Gladys and Sharon made.

Part of the circle...before the unwrapping began

Alden catching up on some sleep...not sure how he could with this noisy group

Uncle Mike aka Bow Boy-always entertaining us.

Spencer and Khloe-so cute to watch them open up presents.

We headed back to St. Peter that night and tried to re-coop a little the next day.   Brian worked a bit more on trim and I started preparing for our New Year's Eve party.  I didn't get any pictures of our party but it was a good one and everyone had a fun time.  Our friends the Gracks, Gilbertsons, Crowleys and Friedrichs were able to make it.  We had awesome food and played a really fun game.  We all stayed up for the ball to drop and after everyone was out the door 10 minutes later!  The kids were tired but were good troopers.  Its the only night of the year they get to stay up this late.  It was wonderful to bring in the new year once again with the friends we are blessed with.