Christmas in NY

Here is Grandma's Christmas morning coffee cake

Alyssa and Ambrey holding blankets my mom made for their dolls

Their American Girl Dolls
Alyssa having fun!

The Biggest Christmas Ever. So fun! Thank you Grandma, Grandpa, Great Grandma and Grandpa and Grandma again. So fun!

We went over to the Dick's on Christmas eve and had a special little Manger program. David made some cut outs of the manger scene and the kids got to help him hold them up on a picture frame with light in the back ground. So fun and creative.

Danish Christmas Eve Dinner. We had the Sawyers and the Dicks over. It was fun.

Danish Dinner Setting

Celebration!!!

In celebration of what was a big day for our family, a trip to the Anchor Bar seemed to be appropriate. It was our first trip to the home of the original buffalo chicken wings, even though we have now lived here for two and a half years.All fed and watered with acid indigestion. Good times!

Posing in front of some license plates at the Anchor Bar from left to right: Ellie, Ambrey, Alyssa, Anna, Tabitha, and Charlotte.
It could probably be argued David and I have spent more time together over the past 28 months than either of us spent with our families. And now they are headed to Albuquerque, and we are headed to... Buffalo? Right.
Anna's asthma kicked in when she got sick, so here she is doing her breathing treatment while sitting warmly under one of her new presents from Grandma. Kind of a funny story, but Anna has a favorite blanket. It's another one from Grandma, white with little red hearts on it. Well on Sunday Janna and I were resting on our couches with blankets, and Anna came to Janna so they could lay down together. Janna told her to go get her blanket, so Anna went upstairs to her room. After a couple of minutes Anna came back down the stairs empty handed and agitated. I asked where her blanket was and she grunted in an angry manner and pointed up the stairs. I got up to see what the problem was and found that she had tried to man-handle her big, new, heavy blanket down the stairs and it had gotten wrapped around the rail at the top of the stairs. She had left her "favorite" blanket laying on the floor in her room.

Anna and the girls posing with the birthday cake. Poor Anna wasn't feeling well so she didn't get to blow out her candles.

The "Happy Birthday" video for Janna and Anna