Merry Christmas!

We celebrated Christmas Eve at Adam's parents house. Despite the blizzard, we made it there! The food, company, and presents were worth the drive. Also, the Heffelbowers are famous for their practical joke gifts. Adam gave his brother Scott a nicely wrapped box filled with 10 little cards that were "Good for one free hug." Adam later gave Scott his real present. Scott and Jeremy both brought little boxes of edible bugs. Juliet was so curious about them, and even licked one (video to follow soon). As a non-gag, but really great gift, Scott gave Jeremy an assortment of fancy cheeses. One cheese was $60 per pound! Some of the cheeses were good, but others smelled so terrible we could not eat them.

Today, we woke up in the morning with the blizzard continuing. After the kids opened the presents from their stockings, we put on our snow gear and made a wonderful snow-man! After Juliet's nap, we headed over to Great Grandpa Quenten's (aka Ahcoon's) house for another party. It was a wonderful Christmas.

There is just no room for a Christmas tree in our little house. So, Santa leaves presents in the Christmas stockings. These stockings were presents from great grandma and grandpa Frigo.

Opening presents in our jammies.

Homemade gingerbread cookies (which taste nothing like the store-bought kind).


The "snow king."

Our radiator serves as a coat rack during the winter months. Everything gets so dry and toasty!

Holiday Switching

Ever since we had kids, we "switch" holidays every year between our parents. This year, thanksgiving was in Green Bay with my parents, and Christmas will be in White Bear Lake with Adam's family. The next year, it will be the opposite. So far, it has worked really well.

We had a great time over thanksgiving. Katie was there, along with her fiance Darin, and his two twin daughters, Mya and Madison. Sophia and Juliet thought Mya and Madison were great. They played make believe games for hours. When they got tired of that, they would snuggle on the couch and watch a movie or coerce Adam into playing video games with them.

My parents also came into town a few weekends ago to celebrate Christmas with us. The girls loved their new penguin jammies and other gifts from Grandma and Grandpa.

Grandma, Grandpa, and the girls in their matching penguin jammies at the "Mulloy" Christmas.

Hanging out and playing game boy at Thanksgiving.

Mya, Madison, & Sophia snuggled together.


The girls decided to eat thanksgiving dinner together at the little table, even though there was room for them at the big table.

Juliet is ready to eat!