Sunday, December 28, 2008

CHRISTMAS 2008!

Chase's 1st Christmas was a great one!! We stayed in CA this year and spent Christmas with Mom, Dad, Christine & Jim. This is the first year we haven't gone to Colorado in a few years so it was a little different but we had such a great time. We really enjoy the time we get to spend with family and Chase just loves his Grandma & Grandpa and Aunt & Uncle! It is so amazing experiencing holidays with a child now - everything has a whole new meaning and excitement:) It will just get better and better as Chase really starts to get into Santa in the next few years!

The only bummer was Chase is still trying to recover from this yucky stomach bug he has had for a week so we had to deal with a lot of throwing up and "other stuff" - poor little man:( He even got Uncle Jim sick on Friday - sorry Uncle Jim! Chase was a trooper though and we still had a great Christmas. Here are some pics from all the celebrating...

Chase excited it is Christmas Eve!

Chase and Grandma on Christmas Eve

Family shot after Christmas Eve dinner.. annual tradition of Tutto Fresco!

The whole gang after dinner on Christmas Eve

Chase's hair is finally starting to come in... Ha Ha

Opening a CSU football Christmas morning from Grandma & Papa Hoelting

It's Elmo!

More gifts from Santa

Jim & Christine getting some gear for Ben to cheer on Cal Poly & CU


Yum...cardboard!

The boys drinking eggnog out of Moose mugs (just like Cousin Eddie and Clarke Griswald) while watching Christmas vacation:)

Dad went out and bought Mario Kart for the Wii over the weekend and we had so much fun racing each other! Hours of entertainment:)


We got a chance to do our annual "girls" get-together during Christmas with my best girlfriends from high school. Chandra, Tiffany, Jessica and I met up for brunch along with Dan, Stu, Craig & Chase. It was such a blast to get a chance to spend a few hours together since we are all over the place these days! We missed Kari & Ty - who were up in No Cal. What a great time though - love you girls!

Chase all dolled up to go see everyone at brunch!

Chase sporting his adorable new hat from Chandra & Dan

I could go on and On.... here are all our pics from Christmas...


Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!!!

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