Merry Christmas 2011!

We had a wonderful Christmas! Grandmom, PopPop, and Uncle Brian drove from Chicago and arrived here on December 23rd.  Christmas Eve was filled with the kids church service at 3:00, dinner at Biaggi's and I played the flute at church at 7:30.  The kids were tired and went to bed in plenty of time for Santa to come and drop a load of presents at our house!  The grownups enjoyed the famous Neuman Christmas punch and playing baggo outside in the driveway on Christmas day.  It was such great weather this year!

Kevin was thrilled to receive a dinosaur pillow pet, Transformers, Imaginext dinosaurs and Monopoly Junior.  Katie can't talk too much yet, but I can tell she's happy with her new rocking horse, shopping cart and dolls.  Both of the kids received bundles of new books, we are all happy to refresh the collection.

Oh - I almost forgot to add how much fun we have been having with the TinkerToys.  You can see in these videos that we made it into a microphone.  The kids also received some toy instruments:  drum, piano, guitar.  Here is a video of some impromptu Christmas caroling!





We spent the remainder of last week "relaxing" at home.  Nate went to work for a few days, but otherwise we were home and played many, many games of Monopoly Junior, dominos, Crazy8's, read all the new books, battled with dinosaurs, played babies, rocked out with the instruments, learned how to transform all of Kevin's robots, and kept Katie from climbing up the Christmas tree (when all she was really trying to do was kiss the ornaments that she thinks look like puppies).  Whew - I'm exhausted and glad we are back to our regular routine this week.  I need a nap!