Wow...January is already here?

I feel like Christmas was just yesterday, it may be because we still have our Christmas tree up...but either way I can't believe that January is here already. This week I finally started back to work, so it was "fun" getting back into a routine. I think Blake was ready for it, he was struggling a little last week to sleep. But now I think we're back on track.

We were able to finally get down to Blue Earth and celebrate Christmas and New Year's at the Vriesens. It was very relaxing and fun to just hang out. Blake was excited to get all the attention, Husker...not so much, but she's a good sport. Blake is really on the move, so it was fun to have a big open area with NO STAIRS around and him to roam free.



Luckily the Cornhusker's won their bowl game. Blake and Brian were cheering them on, as Husker huddled up next to me scared of all of the cheering. It's really quite cute.



Brian and I went to the Timberwolves game last night. I got free tickets from work, it was nice to have a inexpensive date night. I think my parents were excited to come babysit too. Today the Oian's were over to celebrate Christmas. It's been a while since Blake and Macie have seen each other so I'll end the post with some cute pics. They sure are going to have a good time growing up together![gallery link="file"]

Blake's First Christmas

We knew this Christmas was going to be an exciting once since it would be Blake's first one, but we didn't know we would have to fight a snowstorm just to celebrate. Fortunately we were able to get out to Buffalo on Thursday morning and celebrate with the Quady/Soholt/Lotti families. But today we started out to Blue Earth and turned around, the roads were just too bad and we were going to have to turn around and come back tomorrow. Brian' s stress level was high driving, so we decided we should be safe and stay home. So we are snowed in so I'm going to upload some pictures to share with everyone we haven't been able to see yet...hope everyone had a great Christmas!

until next time...[gallery]

a little Christmas Tree...and a little football

With crawling only around the corner, we decided that a tabletop tree would be a smarter idea this year. So we made the trip out to my uncle Bob's tree farm and cut down a little tree. It's the smallest tree I've ever had, but it's so cute. Since we got rid of our pre-lit artificial tree, we were on the hunt for lights. Didn't know that would be the worst part of the day! I can't believe that EVERYWHERE is out of lights already. Brian really wanted red lights, you know Husker colors :) And there were none to be found until I got to good ol' Menards.  After already being at two Targets and Wal-Mart, I pretty much took the lights and ran before anyone could get them! Our tree is so little it only took two strings, so that was nice. The new LED lights are pretty nice,  it definitely brightened up everything. Since we have always had a full size tree, our ornaments fill up the tree...no problem. But it's cute and makes the house look all ready for the holiday season.

After setting up the tree all of us got settled in for the big Nebraska game. Although they lost it was a very close game. Husker got a little scared of Brian cheering and decided we all needed to be on the couch together!

Speaking of football; each year Brian starts up the College Bowl Pick' Em Tournament. I think he is still disappointed that I've beaten him a few times already, but he keeps trying. This year he wanted to make sure Blake got involved. He wanted to make it extremely fair, being the accountant that he is, so he set up a very scientific way of choosing the game. Take a look.  He associated each team with a block, and then squeeked each block equally and which ever one he touched first. YES, he did this for 32 teams. He didn't get a choice for the Nebraska or Minnesota games, Brian gave those to him automatically. Of course Brian would never let Blake pick against the Big Red, and although he's not a Gopher fan, a certain Grandma REALLY is, and it was in kind gesture.

And as always closing with some bonus pictures--

Until next time...

[caption id="attachment_130" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Husker "watching" Blake sleep on the way home from the tree farm."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_131" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="More choosing of teams..."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_132" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Our morning breakfast together..."][/caption]