Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
Well, we had a very busy Christmas week. Christmas eve day Krista, Rebecca, Katherine, Leif and Cade baked Christmas cookies. The boys were really getting into decorating the cookies and eating them too!
The parties started on Christmas eve when we went to Krista's cousins house in Edina, MN. There were about 40 of us in all, the boys had a lot of fun running around with all the kids. Leif is now known among the family as "the pinball wizard" since he spent about 45 minutes playing a real full size pinball game. He was really racking up the points too! There was so much good food we all came how with stomach aches! Christmas eve night Leif and Cade left out cookies and milk for Santa as well as special Reindeer food out in the snow for all the reindeer. Christmas morning was great fun. Leif came running in our bedroom and yelled out "Merry Christmas, Santa came last night!". He was very excited to go downstairs and rip open presents. 
Cade, was not much into opening up presents he preferred to just go and play with all his old toys. Although, Cade did open a couple of his own gifts, Leif tore through 90% of them. The boys got trucks, trucks and more trucks...which is just what they wanted! The boys got so much stuff, we may need to get a bigger house (just kidding!).
Later in the afternoon Krista's immediate family came to our house and we opened more presents, Leif was so excited he was opening everyone else's presents too! After Christmas dinner we were all playing board games...which eventually turned into stupid human tricks...did you know that Leif can role his stomach? On 12/27 we had yet another family party to attend, it was a couples wedding shower for Krista's cousin. On 12/28 Leif and Justin went downhill skiing. I think that Leif really liked going down the hill, however he did not like going up the "magic carpet" since he wiped out on it a couple of times. Justin plans to get Leif out skiing at least 2 more times this year.
We are not yet sure what we are doing for New Years Eve this year (even though it is only two days away). We have talked about either going up to the cabin or having some friends over.
