Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all our family and friends! It has been a wonderful holidays for Josh, Keatin, and myself - we have truly enjoyed Keatin's First Christmas!

On Christmas Eve, we headed to SL. We went to church at St. Mary's with my parents and Josh's dad, and then had a wonderful dinner at the Barber residence with G & G Petersen, G & G Barber, Bri, and Jon/Patti McKenna. After a VERY restless night of sleep (Josh says we are NEVER sleeping in the same room as Keatin again), Keatin, Josh, and I were up around 6 to check and see if Santa had come. :) We spent most of Christmas Day at G & G Barber's house, opened gifts, and played some video games. We went to G & G Petersen's house for a few hours, talked to Aunt Jen on the phone (she had to work on Christmas Eve in Omaha), talked to Great-Grandma Petersen in California through iChat on the computer, and had a WONDERFUL dessert. We slid our way back to Ames on Christmas night...bad weather and made me VERY nervous...but Josh got us safely home.

Then...we "hosted" Christmas in Ames the last 3 days for Jen/Joey and G & G Petersen. We have had a wonderful time, opened more gifts, Dad/Joey/Josh worked in the basement some, and just basically relaxed/hung out - it has been nice. Mom and Dad are still here, but Jen/Joey took off a few hours ago...

Below is a link to about 60 pictures we have taken over the course of the last several days. Josh told me I had to get them uploaded today so Great-Grandma Heeren could see them on Alex and Irene's computer...so enjoy! :) (I have a few videos as well, but was having issues getting them uploaded earlier...will try again, so check back!)



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