Um....Christmas?

Shawn and I did manage to get the theater before Christmas to see "Four Christmases" with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn.  It was a cute movie but not at all like the four Christmases we had to manage in a matter of 2 days!  Christmas Eve Shawn had to work, so as soon as he got off work we packed up the car and started on our Christmas adventure!  First stop...My Dad's family.  Christmas Eve at the Murf's is a tradition and Mimi and I haven't been able to participate in years, so it was really great to be able to spend Christmas Eve there this year (plus I totally missed the perogi's!).  It is definitely a different experience than we were kids, now all my cousins have kids and they are so entertaining.

Caitlin the Christmas Elf :)

Fabian, Tommy and Tyler making toy guns out of huge Legos.  I think I have about 6 of these types of pictures!  haha

My cousin Kimberly and her sons, Fabian & Christian.

The bigger girls, Sammy, Tori and Brandy, think they're too cool to hang out with all of us dorky adults!

We headed out that night after dinner to Shawn's family at his grandparent's house in Wakarusa. The drive wasn't too bad, only a bit over two hours.  We had our gift exchange with Shawn's parents and brothers that night then the next day Aunts & Uncles arrived with more kids.  It was a really nice day with tasty food...but we weren't done with our Christmas yet!

Shawn's Dad, Bob, is opening his present with a little help from Shane.

Looks like Shawn is stuck with me as his Christmas present :)  hehe

After lunch we were on our way down to Parker City for Christmas with the Manning Family.  My Aunt Colleen & Uncle Michael were having Christmas at their house, so we headed over to open the presents from our Christmas drawing.  The younger kids are not included, but Shawn and I were in the drawing this year.  Dave also brought his presents for us since this the time we had to spend with him for Christmas as well.  We didn't hang around to eat because Mom was expecting us so we could have Christmas dinner with her and open our present there at her house.  Yikes!  Lots was accomplished, but after dinner at mom's we just go to relax and that was nice.

Holly loved her Bears jersey from her favorite cousin...ME!

"OMG!  Twilight!  So freakin' cool!"  I think Haley liked her presents too.  Again from the greatest cousin ever...ME!

My super cute Eeyore Precious Moment from Mom...Isn't it the cutest?!

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Super sweet Superman shirt from Mom.  Probably the coolest Superman shirt Shawn has gotten in awhile!

Could I have gotten a more appropriate book for Sara?  I think not.

Family Guy of course...the only show Eric ever watches.  And he watches constantly!!

So overall it was a great Christmas.  Busy, but great.  Shawn only had 2 days off of work so we had to rush back to Chicago, but it was nice to get to come home for a few days at least.  Hopefully we'll have some more time next year.

So I realized as I was reading other people's blogs this morning that my blog completely skipped over Christmas!  I don't know why that happened...probably due to the post-engagement excitement :)  I have not been blogging much lately either because I have been so busy planning wedding stuff.  I am having a ball with the planning though.  Anyway, I wanted to share my Christmas so here it is.