Friday, January 17, 2014

Freeland Christmas 2013, Part II


Grandma bought special wrapping paper for each grandchild. Beckett
 had Thomas, of course, Cale had Buzz Lightyear, Casen had Spiderman,
 and Campbell had Dora. The kids enjoyed knowing exactly which
presents belonged to them. 

Working on the Thomas puzzle

Superhero meeting

The weather after Christmas was so nice and we were
 able to let the kids outside to run around for a bit. 

Beckett got hurt playing basketball, but Uncle Chris is pretty good at "fixing" the injuries.

All I want for Christmas is...a storm shelter

Blake's parents had a tornado shelter installed a few days after Christmas. They didn't really get it as a Christmas gift, the installation just happened to fall during the time that we were all at their house for Christmas. The weather was quite chilly, so the guys stayed outside to supervise while the wives and kids "checked" on them throughout the morning.




Sunday, January 5, 2014

Christmas 2013, Part I

This year, the Freeland Christmas was in Stillwater. We had such a great time with family that we do not get to see very often. There were about 20 of us who spent the night on Christmas Eve, and then many more family members joined us for lunch on Christmas Day. There were almost 50 of us eating lunch at Blake's parents' house on Christmas Day. It was a blast and the food was wonderful.

It's so much fun watching the big kids come down stairs and open presents on
 Christmas morning. We did our little family Christmas at home before we left for
 Stillwater, but brought Beckett a few presents to open on Christmas morning. 

All he wanted for Christmas this year was a Thomas puzzle.
 He was pretty excited to open it.