Last night was a wonderful celebration at Angie Cross's house. She is Shonn's first cousin on his dad's side. (Her mom, Lou Ann, is Shonn's dad's sister.) It was a nice drive over to Mt. Pulaski with beautiful snow on the trees and Christmas lights everywhere. When we arrived, Beckett was excited to see the kids and immediately wanted to play with all of Tyler's toys. (He has a ton, and they are all super-cool!) Instead, though, Jim said the prayer, and we ate. Grandma and Grandpa Hild got pizza for everyone, and it was delicious. While we ate, we caught up and visited. We hadn't seen everyone on the Hild side since this summer's reunion party. After dinner, we opened presents, and oh my - our kiddos were spoiled rotten! It was Harper's first time opening gifts and she loved the paper! Once the gifts were unwrapped, we did a lottery ticket exchange. Last year, we gave the fake winning tickets, but this year we were good! A few people won 5-10 dollars. Then it was time for dessert - cookies from our exchange earlier in the day, ice cream, and chocolate cake. YUM! We headed home after that and made it back around 9:30. It was a wonderful time with our family!
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| The kids' table |
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| Lots of pizza! |
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| Love this face...and Beck loves that toy! |
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| AWWW! |
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| Two happy girls! |
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| With Beth |
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| "Swing me, Daddy!" |
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| Love Mee Maw |
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| My dolly |
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| All the kids! |
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| Kate was such a good big cousin! |
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| YAYYYYYYYY! |
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| That's a lot of presents! |
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| Happy! |
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| First present! |
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| Loves the paper (and the blankie!) |
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| WHOA! |
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| Jay has the holiday spirit... |
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| Princess pose |
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| Ready for the journey home (Beckett holding the stackable doggies he loves so much) |
Thank you to:
- Angie, Dustin, Tyler, Tim and LouAnn - Remote control T-Rex and Dinos for Beckett and a Disney Princess Castle for Harper with Snow White and Cinderella!
- Bryan, Susan, Aryn, and Ryan - B Wireless Microphone for Beckett and Singing Picnic Basket Shape Sorter for Harpy!
- Mike and Amy for the Disney Planes racetrack for Beckett and the Fisher Price Walk behind doggy for Harper!
- Beth, Henry, Kate, and Cora for the snuggly warm personalized blankets. We are going to keep them in the car so we can use them every time we take a trip!
- Mee Maw and Papa for the little boy and dolly ornaments and the Christmas Golden Books!
- Great-Grandma and Grandpa Hild for the stackable doggies for Beckett (he loves them!) and the old fashioned Humpty Dumpty dolly for Harp. Thank you, also, for the gift for their savings!
