We had a wonderful Christmas starting off with Christmas Eve. The Rudels' and Strongs' enjoyed a Christmas dinner followed by a white elephant gift exchange. We had a talent show which ended up with the two youngest girls singing and dancing around the Christmas tree. We then opened up our traditional PJ's from Nana and Papa. The Curtis family showed up after their big party with the Curtis family. Someone handed Dresden his gift thinking it was the PJ box. Darn! The surprise was over! It was his gift for Christmas day. Collin was devastated thinking that Dresden got the DS game he wanted. I bought them the same thing but Collin didn't know that. But soon Dresden and Collin put two and two together finding out that I was giving them both the same thing. So Christmas day Papa John and I decided to play a trick on Collin......see Natalie's blog, Jay videoed our little trick. Christmas day Grandpa Bill and Grandma Ellen went with us to visit all the kids and to see what Santa had dropped off for them. Saturday night our Cali family came into town. Savannah, Cole and Creed opened up their presents from us. They had the same PJ's as their cousins. We really enjoyed visiting with them. Sunday we had family pictures at the church (courtesy of our great son-in-law Larry), then we had another family dinner in our home then the cousin's exchanged their gifts. It was so good to have all of our family together, yes, it was crazy but a wonderful night.
Tayler, Logan, Sydney, Dresden and Collin
Christmas Eve- Sydney Hugging Grandpa Bill
Carlee reading the "Night Before Christmas" 
Collin & Dresden playing chess, Logan watching
Family Picture - we were all mixed up but it worked
1 Natalie, Shannon, she's holding Creed (Mike & Nikki's), Soupie
2 Grandma Ellen, Savannah(Mike & Nikki's), Logan(Shannon & Larry's), Grandpa Bill
3 Carlee & Tayler(both Brandt's & Soupie's)
4 Sydney, Collin (both Natalie & Jays), Dresden (Shannon & Larry's), Cole (Mike & Nikki's)
5 Jay, Donna, Brandt, Mike Nikki, John and Larry
Grandkids goofing off
Sunday Night - Celebrating December & January Birthdays
Monday Night - Our Christmas Present to the Adults- a night out without the little ones
Donna, John, Natalie, Jay Shannon, Larry, Michael, Nicole, Brandt, Carlee and Soupie
