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Friday, December 30, 2011

Humboldt Christmas Celebration

After opening Santa's gift to Chelsea we loaded up the car and began our 3 1/2 hour (well, without any stops) trek to Ben's Grandma Sandvig's house in Humboldt Iowa.  We flipped Chelsea's carseat forward facing, left right at her morning naptime and packed a bag full of goodies for her.  Needless to say, we were very nervous on how she would do on such a long roadtrip.  She slept for the first hour and the last half hour of the trip.  We stopped once at a rest stop to change her diaper and let her stretch her legs and stopped a second time to get gas and let her stretch her legs once again.  All in all she did very well in the car.  It took us just over 4 hours to our destination.

We had a lot of fun celebrating Christmas with the Sandvigs.  His Grandma is such a gracious hostess and we were happy to FINALLY introduce her to Chelsea.  We opened gifts, ate dinner and then played lots of competitive ping pong.  Since Christmas Day is always so hectic we decided to spend an extra day in Humboldt so we could spend some "quiet" time with Grandma Del. Ben's parents, Uncle Steve, Uncle Kent and Lili stayed as well. 

We woke up on Tuesday morning and enjoyed a relaxing morning.  Once it was time for Chelsea's morning nap we hopped in the car and headed back to the city.  We made it all the way to Cabela's in Owatonna before Chelsea needed to get out of the car.  We walked her around the store and looked at the taxidermy animals and the fish tank.  That stop definitely had Ben and I craving a day on Lake Mina fishing!  Cabela's is the only stop we had to make on the way home. 

Santa brought Chelsea letter blocks!

Lili and Chelsea


Jane's old rocking chair

Julie and Luci

Lili helping Chelsea open Christmas presents

Chelsea took all of Luci's bows


Ahhhh!

Tammy, Doug and Jane

Del and Uncle Steve




Cheering on a ping pong game!

Let the games begin!













Monday morning.  Great Grandma reading to Chelsea

Grandma reading to Chelsea


Daddy and Chelsea time

Kent watched Chelsea for us while we played a game a hearts

Christmas Eve Pictures!

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve with Ben's parents and Chelsea.  We attended the 2:30 Church Service at Lord of Life in Maple Grove.  Chelsea was definitely a "hit" at church.  I let her walk up and down an aisle before the service started and most everyone reached out for her or smiled at her. After the service we opened presents, ate some appetizers and played with Chelsea early in the evening.  Chelsea really loved the presents Grandma and Grandpa Fisher gave her.  Especially the little animals and houses.

 Once she went to bed we sat down and ate a yummy dinner of pork chops, baked potatoes and tomato / onion / avocado salad.  After dinner we played a competitive game of Hearts and went to bed at a decent time since we were all planning on driving to Humboldt Iowa to Ben's Grandma Sandvig's house.  Here are some pictures from Christmas Eve... Chelsea was a showstopper in her dress!! :)


Getting ready for church









Her new favorite door to open... She LOVES banging the pot lids



Time to open presents!






Her favorite gift of the evening


She's NOT HAPPY that we took her gift away from her so she could open the others!



Now she is happy again :)


Time to play on the slide!  




The baby is in bed and it's time to play Hearts!