Merry Christmas from US!

We are so excited for Christmas this year. Gavin has been counting down with a paper chain that he made in preschool and Henry has been testing us by tearing various presents under the tree everyday to see if we will let him open them all the way.

One super fun thing about this year is that we aren't traveling. We are at home and not on the road dealing with weather and crying kids and rushing and all of that fun stuff that we usually do every year. We are sad not to be spending time with all of our extended family, but it just didn't work out for us to make a winter journey to Iowa this year. We are taking advantage of the time at home to make all of the holiday decisions and make things fun.

The boys are super excited and ready for the big day tomorrow.

We hope that you are all having a great day! And enjoy your Christmas.

Just wanted to include this photo of how things went when I tried to take a picture of the boys together for this years Christmas card, I had about 10 that looked something like this... with various amounts of pouting from Gavin, and Henry looking pretty happy and pleasant in all of them. I ended up taking separate pictures of them and using some of my old skills to put them in the right proportion and combine two photos. I thought it would be really obvious to every who got the card, but when I talked to Heidi, she said she had no idea. So now you can all go back and look at it and see if you can see the line where I combined the photos together. I guess my skills are better than I thought since it sounds like most people didn't notice (it is the top picture).