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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Our Christmas

We had our Christmas on Christmas Eve. That morning I went to work since we were gonna be gone that week. After I got home from work, we just kind of hung out and had cheese & crackers as an appetizer. Some people played games :)

Opening presents


Evan got an Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine from David. Carla & I got t-shirts. Mine was blue and Carla's was orange.


My favorite present of all (although it's not even mine). I'm not sure why I said "Just so you know" so many times...

Us kids all pitched in and gave Mom the blanket. The picture is the same one that we used on our Christmas card.

My gifts

Friday, January 11, 2013

Gerber Christmas

Although Christmas was over 2 weeks ago I am going to post my pictures now! :)

We had my Mom's side of the family over on Sunday (the 23rd) for our family Christmas. We spent a good part of the day Saturday getting the basement ready for the company.

We, uh...played baseball

while Mom worked



...and made weird faces!

We definitely got a lot of work done ;)

Sunday around 4:30 the people started arriving. We had sandwiches and lots of h'orderves as our supper. After supper we cleaned up and then did a yankee swap.


My little cousin got a few head lamps for Christmas this year. If I understand right this one made it number 4

A. Dawn opening her gifts, Andy being weird, and Laura fixing her hair

The boys giving head massages. Anyone want one? I heard they were pretty good ;)

Family picture time. It was quite the process...I'm not even sure how many times we moved


Finally we're all together

Just the girls

and just the boys

All the kids and their spouses

and the baby of the family....



Playing games



I learned that my legs are very weak :)

We also played 4 men on a futon and the paper bag game (demonstrated below)


He is definitely the cutest little guy (I'm not biased or anything ;)

It seems that we are prepping for Christmas for a long time and just like that its over! Crazy how time flies so fast. Up next our little family Christmas 

:)

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Long Overdue

Here's some goings on that happened back in October

Mom & Dad wanted to take a "Foliage Ride" one Sunday after church. For some reason it was just me and Carla (not sure where my younger brother was) but were not thrilled. I brought my laptop to work on homework and Carla brought something to read/write/draw/whatever it was :)


Also in October, I went to a friend's house for a hayride. Each person was supposed to bring a younger kid and a pumpkin for them to decorate.

The decorated wagon



Some of the pumpkins

Me and the little girl I brought


Stringing the donuts

The kids had to eat them off the string without using their hands


Ring around the rosie

Bending under the string...

...or jumping over it


It was a fun night!

Soon I will post about our Christmas's, hopefully before too long! :)

School starts Monday :(