The craziness started when our family had our annual Christmas party on Dec. 15th. We've had this for three years now but had to skip last year with the girls' being home with such weak immune systems. It was a time to have neighbors and friends from our church campus over to celebrate and enjoy the time of year together. I love how the group keeps growing but as you can see, before long the adults are going to be outnumbered by the kiddos!
Then on December 20th the girls turned 2! It's hard to believe it's been two years since they came into this world. They will soon find out that birthdays don't typically last 7 days though! We had a birthday party with a few friends at home on the 20th and then celebrated two more times with family. Spoiled little girls! The birthday party with friends was a book theme since the girls are so in to reading books right now. We had books scattered around, cakes made to resemble book characters, coloring books to enjoy, etc. Lots of fun!
Then the next morning, December 21st, our travels began. And since the girls were officially two years old, we turned their carseats around so they could be forward facing. It was a big hit for the first half hour or so...then they remembered they were still in their carseats! We were headed to Madison, WI to my mom's sister's house. Our trip turned out to be 10.5 hours due to the snowstorm in Iowa so the girls actually did pretty well in their carseats considering the circumstances. Only about the last two hours were bad. We got to spend time with grammy, aunt Amber, uncle Chad, cousin Brandon (Bubba), aunt Nancy, uncle Steve, and all of our cousins and their kids. It was so much fun to have everyone together!
Then off to Galesburg, IL on December 24th to spend Christmas with all of daddy and mommy's family. We got to see Nana, Pappy, Gigi Pat, Aunt Alice, John, uncle Sean, aunt Heidi, and also Nana's brother and his family. More time with Grammy, aunt Amber, uncle Chad, and Bubba too! The girls were really getting the hang of opening presents by this time!
While in Galesburg, we also got to go to Peoria, IL to see daddy's good friend Matt, along with his wife Jill and Emie. It was fun to see all the girls play together!
Then on December 28th we headed to Minneapolis, MN for a wedding of mommy's college friend. Daddy and mommy agreed that a wedding in Minnesota during the month of December is crazy but friends are worth it! It was a lot of fun for mommy to see so many of her college friends. Heidi and Steve's wedding was beautiful and we were so happy to be a part of it!
Finally, on December 30th we headed home. It felt wonderful for us to be in our own beds and in our own home. We had a pretty uneventful trip but as the title of this post refers, the girls don't have any desire to get into those carseats anytime soon. We had a low-key New Year's Eve with our good friends next door, the Southards. We had a special toast of sparkling cider at 9:30pm to ring in the new year! Pretty crazy for some 30-somethings and a bunch of toddlers!
We hope everyone reading this had a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones and will have a happy new year in 2013!
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