Christmas in Idaho

We started out with Christmas Eve at G&G Hallenberg's. While we were there we sang happy birthday to Elijah(he was not a good boy so he didn't get to go to McDonald's with a friend like he wanted...)Then on Christmas the boys woke up at 5am...NOT HAPPENING...so they went back to bed until 8(much better)Then we went out to G&G Davenports house to see them and for them to see Gwendolyn. Thank you everyone who gave us gifts!! We LOVE them all!! Merry Christmas!!

We didn't have a 7 or 7 candles...Elijah being a math wiz got a kick out of this!

Uncle Horace doing the Birthday spanks!
Thanks G&G Thomas!!

Ohhh how I love having a girl! So cute!

LOL....LOL I laughed sooo hard when I saw this! This hat ROCKS!!! Thanks mom!

Thanks for the Roaster G&G Davenport!

Grandma Hallenberger I love my bread maker!!

Here we are making our beloved Heavenly Hash....My arm was killing me!!

Adeline enjoying the left over Heavenly Hash...we think she had a little to much. After this she was running around the house singing....this lasted for awhile!

More Stuffs.........

Our first snow of the year....the boys just HAD to play in it. They didn't last long!

ALLLLL 4 of them!
Addy was posing for Dad in Gwen's car seat!

Ahhhhhhhh

We were making surgar cookies!

Yummmmmmm

Elijah had his Christmas concert last night. The boy next to him is his buddy Jon.

Santa's on the roof top roof top......

More of Gwendolyn

Addy loves her little sister!

Gwen is about 1 1/2 inches longer than Adeline was....she has longer skinnier fingers, legs, and arms....not to mention her dark hair....WEIRD!!

Dad and his girls!

She's Here!!

I will have to say I was nervous for this delivery because I have never been induced before from cold turkey. I went to the Dr. on Tuesday and I was barely a 1 and 50%. So I went walking and to my kick box class on Wednesday and that got me to a 2 and 60%, that was reassuring! They induced me with a gel that usually won't put you into labor. It put me into early labor then he broke my bag of water and 1 1/2 hours later here she was! She came so fast the Dr. actually missed the delivery and these 2 nurses got to deliver her themselves! The one with the dark hair, she is still a student and this was her last day before she graduated so it was exciting for her! LOL I guess it would be.....

The Family in all it's glory! LOL

Gwendolyn Irene Hallenberger

8 pounds 9 ounces 22 inches

I asked the nurses if they had bows and this is what she came back with!! I love it!!

Here she is with her DARK hair!! All the others came out with blonde, so this is exciting!

It's begining to look at lot like Christmas!!

We were having a LAZY day last week...I mean LAZY, pj's, TV, food, that's it!! So After awhile I decided to try and be productive for my kids so we made Christmas Tree ornaments that I saw in a magazine. The kids didn't want to decorate them(less mess for me!) but they had a great time putting them together!

Here we are decorating the Christmas Tree. It was cute to see Adeline so into it this year....she LOVED putting the ornaments on and would sing Jingle Bells and dance along with the Christmas music that was playing!

We put the tree up one night and decorated it the next night when Robert got home from work and for that 24 hours Ian was consistent in telling me that he wanted to put the star on the tree. He was soooo excited when that time came!