Blessed

We had a very blessed Christmas, spent with our amazing family and great friends. We started Thursday with Baker Metal and Recycling's Christmas party at Neil's parent's house. Neil's dad is an AMAZING cook and he served us king crab legs, prime rib and mashed potatoes. After we ate, we did a yankee gift swap, which is always a ton of fun. I ended up with some awesome LED Christmas lights, Neil got a gas gift card and Kynlie got a little rocking pony that she loves!





 Christmas Eve we took Kynlie out to my parents around noon, then rode snowmobiles in the ditches around town for a while. We went out to my parents and opened presents out there, then went to my grandparent's house and ate soup and hung out there. Most of my mom's family was there, we were just short her brother and his family and my sister and her family. We came back to our house to play Neil's new Playstation Move game and wait for midnight mass to begin. I put Kynlie in the Moby wrap while she was sleeping to go to church, but there was too much up and down that she kept waking up screaming so we spent most of mass standing in the back of the church.



 Kynlie got two new rides over Christmas, Neil got a remote control snowmobile that they sat her on and her little paint pony she got from the Baker Metal Christmas party. She bounces up and down on the pony to get it to rock. 

Riding her new pony



 

Riding daddy's new snowmobile!





 Christmas morning, Neil and I made french toast, bacon, sausage and a quiche and his mom, dad and sister came over, we had a very relaxing morning, eating and opening more gifts. We got a great gift from Neil's parents- a weekend in Big Sky with the whole family, snowmobiling, skiing and just being together. Neil spoiled me with a new laptop- which was WAY over our spending limit on each other but he has never been one to follow the rules!


 

 

Cousins Kacee, Kynlie, Shelby and Madison

Around 2pm on Christmas day, we went out to Neil's brother's house to spend the rest of the day with them. They gave Kynlie the biggest teddy bear I have ever seen. It is at least 5 foot tall and soft as could be. She loves it and spent a lot of the day crawling all over it.  

Kynlie's teddy bear buckled in the back seat for the ride home!

Sunday evening, we had our great friends over for supper and to play Neil's PS3 Move. This is how the daddy's were playing- each with their baby!

Playing video games with Dad!

I have been thinking about where we were at last year and how blessed we are to be at home with our healthy, happy baby this year. I thought it would be funny to see what Kynlie wore at Christmas last year and this year together. There is a little size difference! Last Christmas we spent at the Holiday Inn in Dickinson because they closed the interstate when we were trying to get back to Bismarck to be with Kynlie. It was great to not have to go ANYWHERE this year!



Kynlie's Christmas pajamas- last year Preemie, this year, 12 month.







Kynlie's diapers- Size 1-2 on the left, Preemie XS on the right!