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Christmas 2011

April 18, 2012 by Jensey 2 Comments

Continuing with holiday week- On to Christmas! :)

We spent Christmas at Nate’s grandparent’s home in Indiana. I didn’t grow up visiting grandparents, so I find the idea completely wonderful. I always feel like I’m on some Lifetime holiday movie set when we go visit- From their dreamlike comfy living room rockers, Nate’s grandfather’s sweet comments, to his grandmother’s cookies baking in the oven! One of the best perks of marrying Nate was finally getting a dream grandma and grandpa out of the deal… Just like in the movies! :)

As I mentioned yesterday when I wrote about our 2011 holiday card, Huck received a couple hippos for Christmas. <3

Meet Girl, a real life “Tramp”- She showed up on their porch one day and now a neighbor feeds her. Nate was in love, and if I wasn’t worried about Girl eating all of our furniture and well, Huck… She probably would have come home with us!

Always gotta be the center of attention!

Favorite. :)

With Nate’s family, you literally never know what you’re getting for Christmas. Maybe it’s a box of books with a gift card at the bottom, maybe it’s an empty box with “This will have something in it soon” if your gift didn’t arrive in time. ;)

It’s tradition for Santa to bring everyone a Whitman’s chocolate candy. Nate got some Buckyballs for Christmas- Something I gave him a hard time about asking for because I thought they were pointless. Once he opened them, though, I think I played with them more than him. So addictive! :)

Nate’s sister and her adorable fella. :)

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Holiday Recap Part 2

January 19, 2011 by Jensey 11 Comments

Continued from Holiday Recap Part 1!

I swear we have the cutest friends. :)

I think Nate would have been an amazing gymnast had he’d been given the chance! I don’t know anyone else that would not wipe out from this sledding mishap :

FAVORITE : Nate’s “sledding smile.”

We also saw my Dad for the first time in two years. I’ll never let it go that long again!

Went to the most intense cookie decorating event I’d ever seen and met my step mom’s family :

My masterpiece – It’s a Scottie dog wearing a plaid sweater, clearly!

Dad took us to an MD-11 Sim… My first one since I was 12, and Nate’s first one, ever.

For the first time, I almost landed! It wasn’t pretty, but Dad said we would have walked away from it. And as Dad always told me, “Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing!” :) Nate, however, took to it like a fish and water… I see potential flight lessons in his future. :)

Huck was not a fan of one of our Christmas gifts, “Racing Grannies.” Clearly, that means we’ll be taking video of it soon enough! ;)

One of our brides wrote me on Facebook and asked what sports jersey Huck was sporting all winter – He was wearing a reindeer costume! I’m a little sad the cute hood didn’t show up in 95% of our photos, though!

We went to Indiana to spend the couple days before Christmas with the rest of Nate’s family. December was officially Huck’s favorite, ever. I don’t think he’d been around so many different people in such a short amount of time before!