Merry Christmas!!

We had such a blessed Christmas - what a perfect one for Andrew's first! After being delayed a day due to an ice/snow storm we ventured to Ankeny for and early Christmas. The trip unfortunately took 5 hours - not too much fun with a 9 month old who prefers to be crawling all over instead of strapped in a car seat. Pete however did an excellent job of entertaining - they even watched the movie we first fell in love to...Zoolander! Too funny! Once we did arrive the power was off! We only had to survive about 30 minutes in the dark before power was restored and we could enjoy a meal with the Elgin family.

The next day to our surprise Sophia arrived with shirt announcing she was going to be a big sister!! How awesome that we will be becoming auntie and uncle in 2013!! We were able to celebrate with the whole family later that night.

Andrew loved playing with Sophia and being at Nana and Papa G's house. We had a wonderful time.

Sunday we returned to the Quad Cities to a houseful! All of Pete's siblings and spouses made it home with two new babies! It was a busy house and Andrew was as usual non-stop. He paid little attention to the babies but enjoyed playing with Cole in the new train room. And we will have the addition (officially) of one new spouse next year - Steven and Ellie were engaged Christmas Eve. It's so exciting to have the family expanding once more! We also got to have Abbie home for 11 days and Andrew loved getting to play again since he hadn't seen her since he was 3 months old.

All around it was a very busy but very happy week of family, friends and lots of blessings!