Wordless Wednesday: Christmas in MN

The kids and I were super excited to spend 17 days in MN around the girls break from school. We so loved seeing friends and family and spending a lot of quality time together. This will be just a brief snapshot of all we did, as my camera was not along at everything, like getting together with my PTA girls!!

Here's a few of my favorite pictures!

Holidazzle Parade in downtown Minneapolis!

We HAD to go to the Mall of America! The kids tried on these adorable hats!

They also did Build-a-Bear from Grammy! Uncle Wheels came to MOA too!

Christmas Eve we were with Beau's family up at his brother's house, and I forgot my camera at my mom's house so I don't have any picts from that. Kids had a great time playing with their 5 boy cousins and mom had some good talk time with the in-laws!

Christmas Morning!

You'll notice that the stockings do not say their names on them. I forgot to pack their stockings so we used mine, my sis and bros from when we were kids. My Grandma Becker made 2 of the 3 of them. Good thing we were 2 girls and one boy also!

The Cousin Invasion!!!

Emily & Grammy made a Happy Birthday, Jesus cake!

We love the MN Children's Museum! Can you find Emily?

New Year's Eve at Como Zoo

We wanted to celebrate New Year's Eve with the kids, but obviously, were not going to let them stay up till midnight. My brilliant sister found that Como Zoo has a countdown...at noon!! We made hats, and they had a beachball drop at noon with all the kids getting to take a ball home. Lots of fun!

We celebrated Andy's 3rd birthday with the family on Jan 1.

Our Jan 1st tradition for many years has been to fondue! Lots of fun!

We went rollerblading 2x and had an awesome time!

Belle was a little speedy girl on blades!

On the last morning, we went to Cabela's.

Definitely the hardest part of the trip was leaving...many tears were shed by all.

We had such an amazing time with my sister, her kids and my mom. We've missed them a lot since moving to VA. I think this goodbye was harder than the first since we're not sure when we'll see eachother again, and since we now know what it's like to not have eachother close by. Skype is fun, talking on the phone is fun, but it is just not the same. Love you guys!!!!