'tis the season

IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME IN THE CITY...
ringaling, children sing.. soon it will be christmas day!

FINALLY there is snow on the ground, and i can't complain about the temperatures, because so far it's been pretty nice out. this is one great time of the year. so much love and laughter, all the family is together and ahh gavin seems to love wrapping paper :) he likes it way more than what's underneath it, which makes me smile! now, i just wish he would always like the paper better than the gifts.. i doubt that will happen though.

we enjoyed this weekend to the fullest!
friday we started, yes started our christmas shopping. it was extremely short lived since my mom showed up an hour late to babysit gavin and we got to st cloud around 7:45. we ended up just getting gifts for the schroeder side.. so that means we'll be going shopping again this week! I CANNOT wait to get gavin his present!!! ahhh :)
saturday we headed to rick and jenn's ugly sweater party, which is always so entertaining. almost everyone had an ugly sweater, which was nice to see. i made the drink "strip and go naked" and all of my clothes stayed on, thank goodness.
sunday morning i awoke to the happiest little boy. his shreaks ended up waking up jeremy and jeremy commenting on how gavin sounds like a girl. HAHA! cooper popped his head into the kitchen around 10 while gavin and i were taking our cat nap on the couch. coop decided to go wake the boys up, and then proceeded to plow out our driveway. THANKS COOP! :)
the rest of the day we spent time at the schroeders for an early christmas celebration. the kiddos loved the gifts and shortly after opening them decided to take naps. the boys went and did their manly things outside and cassidy, mel, sarah, shari and i sat around and chit chatted. we were there for just about 6 hours and when it was 7 i decided we needed to head home. gavin got the cutest outfit from shawn and sarah!!! and it's 12-24 months, which is perfect since we don't have too many older outfits! perfect for next christmas, if he doesn't keep growing like he has been. if that's the case we're going to have to go buy a WHOLE new wardrobe and soon!
kristin stopped by today with a 'little something' for gavin. TWO ADORABLE onesies with the words "chubby" and "loveable"with the dictionary definations on them. ahhh what a lucky little man i have! THANK YOU KRISSY!

now the countdown is on! t minus (technically) three days till christmas eve, which is when we do most of our celebrating. heading to grandma cheryl's for supper and to grandma audrey's for presents and drinks. then christmas day we'll all go down to new ulm and celebrate with shari's side of the family... and christmas day means gavin will be SIX MONTHS OLD, already! wow, time is flying by. soon we'll be celebrating his first birthday- which honestly gets me a little emotional.

AHH i love this time of year. family family family :) and soon it will be 2010! which reminds me that i have absolutely nothing planned yet.