More Christmas in Colby!

Christmas Day we had a nice lunch with the Hoernke's! Of course Grandpa Dave and Grandma Karen (a.k.a. applesauce Grandpa & Grandma) were there and Grandma Mae was able to drive over and join us as well. She got to meet Brielle for the first time so that was nice! The Hoernke/Oney bunch! (Derrick, Jen, Austin, Jake, Joel & Jeremy)

Our family (can you tell Ashlyn was being just a little uncooperative - grumpy little girl!)

More Hoernke's

(Darrin, Jake, Tyler & Stacy)

Grandma Mae with the great-grandkids!

(again with Ashlyn not wanting to be in the picture - at least we made it sort of work!)

Grandma Mae with her Grandsons.

Christmas in Colby...

We had a great Christmas at the Resturaunt celebrating with the Hesgard's on Christmas Eve! We had great food, great company and Ashlyn was happy as could be with Grandma Debbie's famous "cherry drink!"

Shotzy hanging out with Jeremy the day after the party! Ashlyn testing her photography skills by taking a pic of grandma all by herself...not bad at all!

Brielle hung in there at the party like a champ. She wouldn't give into much of a nap all night even though she snuggled up nice and close to aunt Stacy at the end of the night :)

Christmas at Home!

Ashlyn's favorite saying as she was opening presents from Santa..."Do I have more?" We tried to teach her about the 'giving' part of Christmas but she really liked the 'getting' this year. She did enjoy everything about Christmas this year though. The lights, the tree, her Christmas program at Daycare and presents! It was nice to hear her say one day though..."Is it Christmas yet? It's Jesus' birthday on Christmas."

Even Brielle liked the presents. Well maybe just the wrapping paper!

Christmas with the Braun's up North

There was just enough snow up in Phillips for the girls to do a little sledding the weekend before Christmas. We celebrated with Grandpa Mick & Grandma Jeannie (a.k.a up north granma and papa), my sisters, their significant others, and their kiddos. The guys did a little ice fishing and we all had a good time playing 'horse races!' Brielle hanging out with Grandpa.

Our "little angel" getting into the presents and thinking about going for the ornaments...they looked like great toys!

The girls and new baby Maddox with Santa.

(Ashlyn (3), Brielle (7 mths), Izzy (2), Mya (3) & Maddox(1 mth))

Our 7 Month Old...

I have been taking monthly pictures of Brielle with this bear and she has definitely passed up the bear! We are still working really hard on crawling...and I mean really hard. We will go into Brielle's room if she wakes up at night and she will be up on her hands and knees trying to crawl when she should be sleeping! Ashlyn tries to teach her every now and then how to do it. Any day now we're sure she is going to take off even though we secretly want to stop her :) New winter hat!

Just being cute :)

Christmas Cookie Time!

Ashlyn couldn't wait to do Christmas cut-out cookies this year! We had our fair share of a mess when it was all over but she did have a lot of fun. A few (or everyone!) of Ashlyn's cookies got a bit "sprinkle" heavy!

Ashlyn's Christmas Program!

Ashlyn was so excited for her Christmas program this last Friday for daycare. She had so much fun singing their songs and we were so proud of how great she did in front of a pretty packed Church! She is the second one from the left.