{Christmas Love}

What a whirlwind of a holiday it has been!  We want to wish everyone a very New Year and hope everyone had a great holiday!  Our holiday started last Friday when Michele and Mike came into town.  We had planned on spending Christmas Eve at my parents with the rest of the family, so Friday night, after visiting with everyone, Bob, Anna, and I headed home, tucked Anna into bed and waited for Santa to come.  We really wanted to open gifts from Santa as a family, so Santa visited the Seidel house a night early.  I was so incredibly excited for the morning and watch Anna open her gifts, it was me who didn't sleep that night!  Needless to say, Anna was very excited to open all her gifts and has not stopped playing with her new kitchen since! 

One lucky little girl, Santa Came!!!

Opening up our first gift from Santa with dad

In major L.O.V.E. with my new kitchen, all the different pieces are my favorite!

Multitasking, playing with multiple new toys at once!!

And finally, a video of Anna finding Santa had come during the night:

We spent Christmas Eve day visiting friends and family, including my cousins and grandma in Manitowoc, The Houston family in the evening (LOVED holding sweet baby Henry, Stacy and Scott's 2 month old little boy) and finally enjoyed a visit from Matt and Stephanie Balzola and their little boy, Vincent before heading off to bed.  Christmas Day was another busy day including opening gifts, visiting with the Zimmer family (my dad's cousin), and a Packer tailgate hosted by my parents before Bob, Michele, Mike, Jason Zimmer, Jerry Zimmer, my dad, and I headed down to Lambeau for the Packer game.  We had such a great time at the game, the Packers pulled out yet another win, and we all managed to stay warm!  What an awesome opportunity it was to spend the night at Lambeau on Christmas!!!

Michele playing with Anna and Vincent

Opening a gift from Liz and Brett....Happy Feet Penquin!

Cuddles with Belle on Chrismtas Monrning!  (Yes, those are matching PJ's!)

Smiles with Aunt Michele:)

Merry Christmas!

Anna in her Christmas Tutu!

Anna and Brett cuddling!

Mike and Mike enjoying their "flights" at Hinterland

Michele and I at the game in our matching santa hats!

Mike, Jason, Bob, Michele, and I at the game

Monday we met my Aunt Di Ann for breakfast and then visited with my grandma and uncle at my grandma's.  We had a wonderful visit and it was fun watching Anna play with all of my grandmother's "pretties."  The rest of our week was filled with more time with family, a dinner out at Ogan and Titletown, some time out with friends Thursday night, taking Anna to Sir Bounce Alots with Paul, Lois, Becky, and her girls and finally, Bob and I ended our weekend dressing up on New Year's Eve for a wild wild west themed party at a friends of ours, we had a blast!

I also wanted to share a video of Anna opening some of her gifts from Grandma Lois and Papa Paul.  We are celebrating Christmas with the Seidel clan in two weeks in Wausau, but they brought these gifts over this week when they came to watch Anna one night because they were larger and didn't want to travel with them (nor would we have the room to bring them home with us!)  Unfortunately, Anna went to bed before we got home and so we opened them the next morning. 

We are so thankful to have had a wonderful family and friend filled holiday and thankful for all the many blessings in our lives.  We look forward to continuing to celebrate with the rest of the Seidel clan in two weeks when we go to Wausau and stay at the Grand Lodge waterpark. 

Many wishes for a happy and healthy 2012!!!!

xoxo,
Bob, Mel, & Anna