Christmas morning..

 Cooking breakfast with Grandma Dorsey

 making pancakes & eggs

 of course you have to taste the batter..that's probably why she chose to make the pancakes instead of the eggs:)

 Jason & Shannon arrived at 3p for the festivities.  The girls waited patiently to open their Santa gifts until they arrived.

 Liv LOVES her uncle Jason and is always climbing on him and having him play with her:)

 Grandpa started a fire and we had to get some fireplace pictures:)

 sister moons

 & grandma too

 getting some love

 opening presents:)

 the fabulous g-rents

 and of course the Avengers

 the hubs opening his presents

We typically go to Omaha to Aunt Patti & Uncle Tom's house Christmas day.  We changed things up this year due to Cade being in the NICU.  We stayed in Lincoln so that we could go visit him during his "care" times throughout the day.  We lounged around all day and then had presents & dinner towards the evening.  It was definitely a nice day to be together as a family.  Our best and most precious gift this holiday season is Cade Scott Holmquist. 

King Christmas Celebration 2012

 Opening presents from Grandpa & Grandma King

 Cousin Ian with his present

 Liv with her Spider-man presents

 Aunt Kaleigh with her nephews

 Uncle Zac opening his presents

 Cousin Owen

Cousin Mireya and the girls being silly after lunch

This year we celebrated Christmas with Teaf's dad & step mom Cathy (& family) the Sunday before Christmas.  We met at their house for presents and then headed out to lunch as a family.  It's also so nice getting together with them.  The King grandparents were so generous with their gift giving and the girls were hooked up with a TON of Spider-man things. (blankets, jammies, slippers, etc)  They were in heaven.  Thanks Mark & Cathy for a great afternoon!

Stark Christmas 2012

 Uncle Blake

 Cousins

 Sitting so nicely for the story

 Reading 'Twas the Night before Christmas to the little kids

 Aunt Jeanine

The Stark's Christmas celebration is always the Saturday before Christmas.  We get together at a club house so that everyone can fit. Grandma Cindy & Aunt Jeanine are the hosts and do the planning and executing for the event. Life gets rather hectic and we don't always get the chance to see all his family throughout the year.  It's always nice to see everyone during the holidays.  This was the start of our Christmas celebrations.

X-mas Eve 2012

snuggling

Traditional snow baby gift we give Grandma Cindy every year

Liv helping Uncle J.R. open his gifts

My mom 2

Uncle Randy

Cousin Grant & wife Jaime (& Great Grandma Donita)

helping Grandpa open his grab bag gift

Uncle Blake with Levi

Uncle J.R. &  cousin Levi

Christmas Eve is always at Grandpa & Grandma Wimmer's house with the Sintek side of the family.  We always have a blast hanging out together.  The girls loved opening their presents and helping everyone else open theirs.  Grandma Cindy & Grandpa Frank gave Teaf and I a giant laminated world map that we wanted.  They didn't quite understand how excited we were when we opened it.  It is AWESOME!  Thanks for all the gifts and a great x-mas eve celebration. 

My sweet nephew

I am an auntie!!!  On December 17th, 2012 Cade Scott was born at 25 weeks gestastion.  For the past month or so I have been dedicating my time to blogging his daily life and keeping friends and family informed of his progress, hence why I haven't been keeping up with this blog.  Being in the NICU is an up and down roller coaster ride but we are blessed with how well he is doing and continue to be hopeful for his future.  I would love for any of my readers (friends & family) to follow that blog and keep Cade in your thoughts and prayers.  If you would like the link e-mail me @ lilbittuf10@yahoo.com or facebook me and I will pass it along to you.   

 

Harper and Livia are thrilled to have a baby cousin.  They see pictures daily and talk about him all the time.  The other day Harper said out of the blue "Dear God, please make sure Cade is doing what he is supposed to be doing at the hospital...Amen."