The Christmas Tree is still up at my house. I thought it was time to take it down the Sunday after New Years, but then Father mentioned that Christmas actually continues until the following Sunday, so I said hey what's the harm in leaving it up one more week. Well last weekend was our Tech Hockey weekend, so between that and the Packer's Playoffs we didn't get it done. It is coming down this weekend for sure and I'm going finally get my Christmas recap blog post up, too!
We left the Wednesday afternoon before Christmas for Cheesesconsin. We finally stopped in Chippewa Falls for a Linenkugels Brewery tour. So much fun and a nice way to break 
up the trip. Adam loved the tour too. He was telling Dave all about the pipes that went up and down during the tour.Thursday we went to Algoma. We ate lunch at Penguin Pizza and while we were there the Andres and Winges stopped by and it was great to visit with the extended family and eat pizza.
We then went to visit Adam's great-grandma at Bay Road. It was probably the best visit we've had with grandma in a long time. She had a great time holding James and talking all about her two great grandsons that were there for way longer than a typical visit. When we got home from Algoma it wasn't long until the Marthalers came over for probably the 25th annual Christmas get together. 
Christmas Eve morning was relaxing. Dave, Adam, Brockway and I toke a walk and played out in the snow. I swear Christmas Eve mass is getting earlier and earlier each year. This year it was 
supposed to start at 4. Bob went to church to hold us seats and we rolled in with the kids 10 minutes to 4 PM and the church was packed. The music program actually went until 4:30. Adam has a pretty good attention span and we can make it 1 hour, but if church goes much longer than that we start to struggle with him. At one point Dave was holding him and church was really quite and Adam points to Dave's face and started saying, "eyes, eyes, nose, honk, honk." The choir could hear him and they all started giggling. After communion when Father got up to end mass there were several little ones throwing fits and the whole congregation just started laughing, it was just way too long for them.
supposed to start at 4. Bob went to church to hold us seats and we rolled in with the kids 10 minutes to 4 PM and the church was packed. The music program actually went until 4:30. Adam has a pretty good attention span and we can make it 1 hour, but if church goes much longer than that we start to struggle with him. At one point Dave was holding him and church was really quite and Adam points to Dave's face and started saying, "eyes, eyes, nose, honk, honk." The choir could hear him and they all started giggling. After communion when Father got up to end mass there were several little ones throwing fits and the whole congregation just started laughing, it was just way too long for them.
We ate our traditional Christmas Eve dinner of ham and potatoes and than sat down for the Schwedler Christmas Program. James got to put Jesus in the manger this year. We had to speed up a few of our songs because of James and Adam's short attention spans. 
Adam totally got opening presents this Christmas. We let him open a few presents every night, because other people were opening gifts and so that there would be fewer to open on Christmas morning. I wish we had had more time on Christmas morning to allow him to play with each toy and do present opening slowly, but unfortunately Aunt Annie had to leave for work by 11 AM and we left shortly after that in order to spend some time with Uncle Matt and Aunt Shar at my parents house before they went back to Chicago.
Adam had the Christmas of Little People and puzzles. He got a Little People fire station, farm and car parking garage. I loved Little People and it's the one thing that I can't seem to say no to. When we got to my parents house late on Christmas evening my mom had pulled out all of our old Little people toys. Adam sat down and just started playing and playing and didn't say a peep for 30 minutes. Finally I said I haven't heard Adam talk once since we got here and he turned to me and said, "momma, I playing, I playing."
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