Ok, I am going to warn you now. This will be a huge post. Why you ask? Well we had well over 800 pictures taken since last time. Yikes! Well it has been an eventful couple weeks for sure. That coupled with the fact that daddy got mommy a new fancy camera for Christmas equals lots of pictures.
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| Thanks Heidi! |
We had our Christmas as a family here on Friday night, where everyone but me ate a yummy steak and opened round 1 of presents. I got some cool little blocks, I don't remember what everyone else got, you can just look at pictures. I just know that everyone seemed really happy. The next morning started off like any typical Saturday but then we jumped in dad's new mini van and went for a trip.
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| Can't wait for our daddy daughter day at the K! |
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| Oh yeah, Santa did come. but I stayed as far away from him as I could. In hindsight, I feel a bit bad since he brought me what I wanted! |
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| I thoroughly enjoyed massages from Uncle Brian! |
Let me take this Heidi....The trip was Awesome. As if dad's mini wasn't already cool...turned out it had a TV! So we got to watch my new movie Tangled that in it (Thanks Heidi). Needless to say, I would be fine if we drove to California (wherever that is). Heidi, on the other hand, got a bit frustrated once we hit Nebraska City so we had to stop and let her calm down and eat. We decided to risk it and successfully made it all the way to grandma and pop pops house in Hartington. I don't have to tell you, they were excited to see us. Aunt RaRa was already there. That was just the beginning of a whirlwind couple days. I had an absolute blast with everyone. I played my heart out and gave lots of hugs and high fives to people. Dad is amazed that I am still feeling OK after all those germs were passed (Both he and mom didn't fare so well). I think I did pretty well too. I was held by pretty much everyone and trained them all in how I like to be held. I even kept up with my sleeping schedule at slept my standard 9-10 hour stretches. I even did well on Christmas Eve. With all 24 people in the house. We started opening presents at 4 and I think we finished at 10. Granted we took some breaks to eat, play, and some went to church. There were a lot of good presents and good times. Amelia and I gave our Godparents scratcher tickets in hopes that plenty of money would be won, it wasn't, I think a free ticket and $5 dollars were about it. I got some great presents from my Godmother Danielle, grandma, and Bailey. Bailey even painted me a picture for my room. Amelia got some awesome presents from Sierra, grandma, Gabby, Will, and her godfather Eric gave her a great play dough set and some super sweet purple sparkly high tops! As you can guess, we were quite happy.
Heidi was showing off (ok flashing) Ryan
and talking with Aunt Rhonda
And sleeping with pop pop and later cousins Gabby & Mallorie
playing hair dress up with Siera and Rhonda. She looks funny with hair!
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| As always, I had a lot of fun with Jason |
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| I played with Siera a lot too... trying to show her how cool us Kansas folks are. Hint, hint! |
Forgot to mention, we also did pictures of all us grandkids. It was during my nap time, but I muddled through. Hopefully they got some good ones!
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| Jack trying Heidi's poop. Dad made him in order to get his present! |
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| Will gave me a stuffed puppy, that I call ya-ya...and love it. |
With one stop in David City to settle Heidi down we made it to Grandma's house. After unloading the mini we decided to open a few presents that grandma had under her tree. Ok, few is an understatement....so we took a break and saved some for a couple days later. Again, I won't get into all of the presents, but I have been having fun with them all.
Some videos from first thing in the AM
Mom had to work during the days, but grandma kept me entertained playing lots and dad even took me to the Children's Museum one day and afterward we went to meet Grandpa McLain for lunch. Heidi didn't get to come because mom & dad thought she would make it hard for them to eat. Hopefully he was content enough with just me until next time! He spent hours (ok, months) giving Heidi and I both part of his coin collection and a cool family tree. I feel pretty special. I like looking at them, but dad says he will hold on to them till I'm old.
Amelia, don't forget we also saw my godfather, BJ and his family! They were all so nice, I did some talking with them and let them all hold me. Amelia took a while to warm up...so Grandma was nice enough to make dinner for all of us...and hooked us up with some Pumpkin Pie! Once we all went back to grandmas for dinner she finally gave in to the Noecker clan and had a blast. They sure are fun.
The whole trip was so much fun seeing everyone, we are lucky to be loved by so many. I wish I could see them more often, but I make the best of it when I do! I'm sure I can talk dad into taking the mini on another road trip since we are both such good travelers!
It is hard to believe 2012 is over today. This has been a big year of ups and downs. The big ones being the chaos of selling our 1st home but then moving into our awesome new one just in time to welcome Heidi to our family and then we had to say good-bye to my ya-ya (Marley). I don't have to tell you how much that still hurts. Needless to say, we will never forget the year 2012! I am pretty sure that 2013 will not be quite as eventful....but I can't wait to see what it has in store for us!
Until next year, Amelia & Heidi OUT!
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| Mom decided to take her first pictures with the new camera of us in the buff! |
Some close ups!
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