Family, Friends and Holiday Fun!

We have enjoyed an amazing holiday season, filled with family gatherings, sledding adventures, snowmobile rides, weekend visits from family and friends, and a trip over "the big bridge". Here are some highlights.

Our road.....winter beauty.

Just last weekend we went to Grand Rapids to celebrate Christmas with the Jones clan.
Here is our brother-in-law Jason, and our niece Alyssa.

Makalynn, Emma and Cole....Yeah for new slippers!!!

Phyllis and Great-Grandpa Weemhoff with Emma, in her new princess dress they gave her.

Emma and Brad.

The whole clan, seated for dinner, and a beautiful smile from Hallie.

Over New Years, our friends the Blyths came up to celebrate with us. Here are Emma, Eli, Ashlyn and Caleb waiting for breakfast. They all played together so well.

Caleb showed Ashlyn how to break out of her "corral".

Emma and Eli watching Reading Rainbow.

Over the holidays, Brad convinced Emma to go for her first snowmobile ride. It looks like she's not afraid of the loud snowmobile anymore.

Brad and Em, ready to head out for their ride.

Christmas weekend we spent time up at my parent's house with my sister Lindsey and brother-in-law Kyle. Here is Kyle, with our newest nephew, Luke, and the piece of pizza Emma delivered to Uncle Kyle's chest.

Lindsey and a tired puppy Luke.

Emma, wearing her new sweater over her jammies, and riding her new scooter. She was excited about all of her presents.

Our smiley little Ashlyn.....she liked the presents too.

She is so animated!!!! I just love all of her expressions.

Hmmmmm......what is that penguin looking at?

Ashlyn is all over everything.....I think she liked crawling on the presents as much as opening them.

Emma and her new princess vanity keyboard!!! She was SOOOOO excited to see what Santa had left her.

Christmas Eve......our girls ready for bed, and excited for Santa to arrive.

My dad's side of the family gets together on Christmas Eve......the last few years we have started a new tradition of theme Christmas parties. This year was a "Wild Game Feed" - we all wore camo or blaze orange, and the menu included venison, pheasant, bear, salmon, and wild turkey. It was a blast, and was over too fast, as always.

Ashlyn, smiling in her camo.

The weekend before Christmas, Brad's brother Mark and his family came up for a visit. We had so much fun, just relaxing at the house together. Here are Emma and Hallie, all tucked in for the night.

Emma and Addison.

Hot chocolate after playing outside with their dads. The girls played together so well. Our wonderful husbands even took charge of the girls long enough for Amber and I to head into town for some shopping and wine tasting!! Thanks guys!

Three pink peas-in-a-pod!

We were again showered with many gifts, shared many adventures and had a whole lot of fun. The holidays always make us step back and appreciate all of the things we take for granted most of the year. We are so thankful for each member of our family and all of our wonderful friends, near and far. God is good! and we thank him for blessing us with each of you. Love to you all!