Visit from Maggie

 

Maggie, Oliver and Wyatt cam and visited last weekend. Wyatt has grown so much! He's a happy little guy. Dave and Oliver played Superman together and spent some time checking out the crab next to the fish tank. The rest of us played handbells on the Wii- it's a challenge! Delilah and Oliver got to play together, and Oliver got to meet Marshall for the first time (his cousin...ish). It was nice to see them all.

St.Louis

 

Our last year in St.Louis! We had a great time visiting with everyone (though we missed Christie and Brian!). Mom(Carlson) had lots of crafts for us to do. Grampy and Jordan grew some crystals. We ate (oh, how we ate!). And we got to go to some places we hadn't been before, like St.Charles (shopping!) and Hannibal (Mark Twain's boyhood home). Dave and I got to stay some extra days, so we had a nice long visit- almost 2 weeks! It was cold most of the time we were there, but it wouldn't snow for us :(
The first Sunday of the year we went to Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church. It was an awesome service and we really enjoyed the choir too!
It was a lot of fun being there, but it was nice to get home too after being away that long. I missed my kitties!

Christmas Day

 

Christmas Day was a lot of fun! Mom and Dale stayed overnight with us on Christmas Eve, so Mom got up Christmas morning and made her traditional Christmas Sweet Bread which we all enjoyed! Later in the morning Sarah, Greg and Delilah joined us and we opened our gifts. It was especially fun watching Delilah, as everything she opened was "Always what I wanted!". After the gifts came stockings, which were lots of fun too. Then we ate (way too much!) and played Wii and visited until everyone had to head home and we had to get ready for our trip to St.Louis!