Christmas Eve Services

The Christmas Eve Service at our new church in Maple Grove was beautiful! We did miss the nursery however - E and I only spent about 10 minutes in the sanctuary and the rest of the time I was chasing him around the back of church. We also joined my family for mass in Eagan and luckily E was content to be passed from lap to lap and eat graham crackers and stayed fairly quiet.

Santa's First Trip to Maple Grove!

It was so fun to have our first little family Christmas in our new house. Looking forward to having the tradition of waking up at home on Christmas morning to see what treasures Santa brought! Santa found the new house just fine and nailed the gift theme - Elmo!

Woods Family Xmas 11 - Fun w/Cousins!

Woods Family Xmas 11 - Puzzles w/Uncle Matt

Woods Family Xmas 11 - Fun w/Gma!

Woods Family Xmas 11 - New Shopping Cart

Woods Fam Xmas 11 Pics

Hiding in the Presents

Grandma and Grandpa sure spoiled E - thanks for the super fun toys guys!

Woods Family Xmas 11 - Fun w/Gpa!

We had so much fun hosting the Woods Clan the weekend of December 17th for an early Christmas celebration. Chuck, Jan, Amy, & Matt made the drive from Des Moines and Jamie, Eric, and Cole made the trek from Omaha - thanks so much for coming up guys! A bunch more pics to come - E sure loved playing with grandpa!

Ethan + Mckinley

We had so much fun with the Quam family when they came to visit in December. Brian, Seth, and Amy went to high school together so there was lots of reminiscing and they even busted out the show choir videos after several cocktails! Mckinely was 6 months old when they visited and is such a cutie pie - E did great sharing his toys and they even got to take a bath together which was a lot of fun for the mamas! The guys grilled out Sunday - the Quams brought up their old one for us and Brian is over the moon to be able to cook outside again - thanks so much guys!

Saturday morning we went to Breakfast with Santa at the Medina Country Club for Brian's office holiday event. The food was delicious but E had a meltdown sitting on Santa's lap - this photo makes me laugh every time I see it :)