Bock Family Christmas

Christmas Day we headed to my Grandparent's house for the Bock Family Christmas! It was a full house but wouldn't have wanted it any other way.  

Great Grandpa with his Great Granddaughters 

(Taylin Almost 12 months, Avery 14 1/2 months)

We all draw names every year so there were lots of presents!  

Taylin in her adorable Christmas outfit!  

So big standing up by herself!  

Taylor and I numbering all the presents.  We had 56 this year!  

An unexpected gift under the tree (I didn't put a label on it)  After opening it part way he goes, "I don't think this gift is for me."  Grandma insisted that he open it.  

Your very own girlfriend in a box!  

The girl sitting next to him was his girl friend a while back; however, they have been off and on since then.  I didn't know she was coming but oh well it was a great laugh.  

Landon was really excited to open his big present under the tree!

He opened it and was a little disappointed it was just Aunt Christie's Dinner Rolls.  

Ahhh, maybe they aren't so bad after all.  

Later he got a Ninja Turtle bike helmet so that made up for his original disappointment.  

Avery was fighting sleep all day until Cousin Kent got ahold of her.  

He's going to be a great daddy as his daughter will be born in April.  

All zonked out!  

We ended the night playing pitch.  We had three tables going which was a blast playing with a different partner every four rounds.

-- Thanks Dad for some of the pictures!

Christmas Morning

Santa came!  

Christmas morning the kids actually slept in later than we had expected.  We opened our Santa presents and stockings prior to heading out of town for the Bock Family Christmas.  

Landon's first response was, "Santa didn't eat all his cookie!" Prior to looking at the drum set he brought him.  I did catch both kids' reactions on video so I'll have to try to upload it.  

He was so excited!

Rock n' Roll!  

Avery still wasn't quite sure about this present thing.

A new basketball hoop that will not be staying in the kitchen.

Playing with their new toys (roll reversals though).  Avery on the drums and Landon feeding the baby.  

These pictures were actually taken the next day when we got home from Christmas at my Grandparent's house.  Avery wasn't too sure about her princess castle but she eased her way in.  

Eating Aunt Christie's dinner rolls for an afternoon snack.  

Our Family Christmas

Christmas Eve we were able to attend the service as a family.  Kurtis didn't play drums which was a nice treat. I did end up working the children's check in so we had to attend the 3:00 service which was a little strange; however, we then had lots of family time that evening.  

Avery all dolled up!  

The most wonderful gifts of all!  

While we were shopping in Target Landon wanted to pick out his own gift for Avery, so him and Kurtis went and did some looking.  Landon picked out an owl pillow just for her all by himself.  He was so proud of his gift and helped me wrap it.

Avery's face is priceless.  She absolutely loved the pillow he bought her.  It was the cutest thing ever.

We then ended up opening some other gifts.  I feel like we unwrapped them in record time.  Landon was so excited!  

Minnie Mouse!

A Nurf gun and a Ninja Turtle hat

Before bed we stuck out a cookie and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer and read Santa's Coming to Nebraska. 

Pre Christmas

Our Elf came back to visit us on December 1st.  Landon really got into him this year and couldn't wait to find him every morning.  Most of the time he just moved around our house but we did catch him playing video games, eating cookies, getting eaten by dinosaurs and coloring.  Every year Christmas Elf also brings us a gingerbread house to decorate.  Kurtis had put it together but the poor thing sat on our counter for days until Christmas Elf decided to start it for us.  We then put it together that evening.  

The finished product

Look who I caught trying to eat his house; pure talent!  

Christmas Elf also brings the kids new pajama's to wear on Christmas Eve for Santa's arrival.  

I've been wanting to take the kids to see Santa and it worked out perfectly when we were in Kearney.  The setup was really cute with the sleigh.  Landon of course was still really scared of him, so just Avery sat with him.  Then of course she started crying so we talked Landon into sitting with her to make her feel better and he did. The picture turned out really cute considering we had tears minutes before.

We watch Taylin one afternoon and they loved looking at the ornaments and lights on the tree.  Perfect picture op!  

The presents are all wrapped and under the tree!  

Newell Staff Party

On Friday, December 5th we had our Newell Staff Christmas party at the Runcie's new house.  It was the perfect place for our large staff.  We enjoyed some great food, laughs and of course BUNCO!!

Stripes were the in thing that night.  Such great friends!

The staff members that made it!  

Kurtis and Erin were at the head table almost all night.  Until… Abby and I made it up there and we BEAT them!  They still had the most wins but it was just fun to say we were the two that knocked them off the top. (Let's just say we are very competitive)  

Then of course if you stayed long enough you had the pleasure of witnessing some dancing…