Christmas Eve

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Mallory was with her Dad until about 6:30 on Christmas Eve but we then all went to spend the night at Grandma's house. Sebastian also arrived in the evening. Here are a few pictures of Mallory preparing cookies and milk for Santa as well as our bag of reindeer food. I finally got Mallory to wind down enough and she finally went to bed around 11:00.

Laura and Walter arrive and Christmas with the Michaelis family

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Laura and Walter arrived on Sunday the 21st and we then celebrated Christmas with Mom's family at her new house on the night of the 22nd. We grilled filets for dinner and had the usual sides along with homemade cinnamon rolls and orange rolls, it was all very yummy! The kids all had a great time and received some great gifts.

Night in Bethlehem

Our Church had a super fun Sunday morning for the kids titled Night in Bethlehem. They had all of the Sunday school classes set up as various places, one room was a bakery where they got to knead bread, one room they got to weave baskets, one room was a hardware store they even had a living nativity along with many others! The kids were allowed to dress as a biblical character and Mallory had wanted to be Mary until the night before when she decided to be an angel. The costume was thrown together at 11:00 the night before but she still looked pretty cute!

Christmas Round 1

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Well, we have been a little busy at the Madsen household. Between illness and moving Grandma Sue to her beautiful new home and all of the Christmas celebrations I feel like we have hardly been home! Here are the pictures of our first Christmas with the Madsen and Young Grandparents here in Kansas.

Christmas card photo!

Last night we attempted to get the kids together for a Christmas card photo, Mick wouldn't hold still for anything and Mallory was so tired of trying to hold him. After looking through the pictures late last night I found this one and thought it made a pretty cute statement about how they felt about having their picture taken!