Baby, its cold outside!

Despite 20 degree temps, we ventured out to Dutch Wonderland on Tuesday night for some more holiday fun!  Yes, it was very cold out, but we didn't really mind... being after Christmas, it was like the park was open just for us!  We never waited in a line, just kept moving from ride to ride, even going around again on the ones we liked.  It was all fun... until the sky ride.  While the first couple minutes we had bird's eye view for the fabulous light show, things quickly got COLD on those frozen plastic seats, high in the air, as we seemingly inched our way to the back of the park.  Brrr!!  Add in a "Mommy, I have to go potty" about half way across and, well, we were done for the night!

More Christmas fun

Opening stockings at Nonna & Tofs the day after Christmas

Blauch family brunch on Sunday

Natalie all dressed up

trying out our new scooters inside (only because it was way too cold out!)

Christmas Day

Grandma with her hands full of grandkids

Aunt Gabby teaching Natalie how to play the Wii

(God bless her!)

Daddy was taking his Chrismas nap when Natalie decided to crawl up to join him.

Christmas dinner silliness

Christmas Morning

He came, he came!

Silly Jilly wearing Daddy's new shirt

Mommy got an iPhone!

Jill and Super Natalie opening their stockings

Happily seeing that Santa liked his oranges and milk (and the reindeer their carrots!)

Christmas Eve

Tracking Santa's progress on NORAD's website

Putting her new ornament on the tree

Jill immediately changed into her button jeans!

Mommy and Daddy dishing out the soup, our contribution to Christmas Eve dinner

Natalie loved the soup!

Happy Birthday Kole!

We celebrated Kole's birthday at Grandma & Pap's this afternoon!

Ben's favorite game is handing you a ball and then taking it back just to give it to you again!

Snow! Snow!

Just look at the snow!

I want to know...

Do you like snow?

Oh yes, oh yes, we do like snow!

Why we don't have the Lenox nativity set...

Cookies!

We baked our first batch of Christmas cookies Sunday evening.  And it was a family affair!

Mommy mans the rolling and cutting station

The girls handle the decoration, of course

Daddy worked the oven like a pro (and supervised the sprinkle eating members of the team)

Family time

Rediscovering the Little People for the 100th time

Mommy and the girls had a game night while Daddy was at basketball

Even played some games at Pappy and Grandma's on a cold and rainy Sunday

And, well, what can we say?  We love our little Natalie!

Holiday fun at the Theater

Just how much Christmas fun can we stuff into EVERY WEEKEND this December???

On tap this weekend... the Nutcracker for Mommy, Jillian and Nonna at the Fulton... Daddy, Natalie, and TOF visiting Santa at the club... and a little cookie baking at home... PLUS some fun time at Grandma & Pap's house!  Whew!

Waiting for the show

Jill's friend Zoe sat four rows behind us and joined us for lunch afterwards

Kindergarten concert

Our favorite kindergartner had her first school concert Thursday.  She and all her class were so cute and they really did a great job!

Another holiday tradition

We made our annual Christmas trip downtown to see the big model train exhibit on Sunday night.

Jillian took this picture.

And shockingly this one too... :)

Yup, this is usually as good as it seems to get...

Our silly girls!

The finished g-men & houses

The girls' gingerbread 'men'.

Notice a few of them have their gummi bear babies in their 'arms'.  They are the Mommies.

Mommy's house.  A new feature this year: a light post.

Mommy's signature pretzel deck.

Daddy and Jillian's house.

Gummi wreath above the door and gumdrop fence.