Lodahl Family Christmas

Hanging out with new cousin baby Ian.

Mykaela and Briella playing.

And of course playing with cousin Angelica.

Henry Family Christmas

On December 26th and 28th we had Henry family Christmas. Briella found something she loved more than wrapping paper....bows.

Reading books with Aunt Joan.

And playing in her stylin' new sweatshirt with Uncle John.

Olson Christmas

Our little snowman. We've been waiting to wear this outfit for months. It was fun to wear for all the relatives.

Our third Christmas of the week and still intrigued with the wrapping paper.

Natalie and uncle-to-be Tim opening presents.

Our family.

Yeah Aunt Laura is back from Panama for Christmas!

Dad, mom and baby

And of course we played a little Rook.

The World's Largest Christmas Stocking.

So on Christmas Eve we got a call that Briella had won a random drawing we had entered her name in the day before at a furniture store. This is what she won...

Most of the toys were a little random. Briella's favorite was a stuffed superman that gave her laughs all afternoon.

Just our Family Christmas

On December 23rd, Kevin got off work early and we had our first family Christmas with Briella. We started lots of fun family traditions and had a wonderful evening together. Briella was super excited and all decked out of course.

Of course the traditional photo in front of the tree.

Eager to unwrap.

She actually did pretty well unwrapping. She got socks, a toy manger scene (she chewed on baby Jesus all night), and a ride and stride.

Usually Kev and I forgo gifts and just give each other candy stashes, but we decided to give gifts this year. I got to surprise Kevin with a guitar that he's wanted for years. Later we watched the Nativity and made a birthday cake for Jesus. It was a wonderful 1st Christmas with Briella.

The Tissue Paper

Natalie always seems to find things to make Briella laugh.
This is tissue paper.
We have about eight minutes of video of this,
but we took a small clip to put on here.
Enjoy!

Birthday Parties

On the 12th both Reid and I celebrated our birthdays. Reid had a camouflage party. Needless to say we took it to the extreme.

Both of the boys are great with Briella and love making her laugh. Here she is just hanging with them as they tear into the Deer Hunter set my mom got them. Then Dylan let Briella play with the tree he assembled. Such sweethearts.

Briella helped mommy open her presents. Had to get some practice in before Christmas.

And here she is soooo happy and proud of herself for standing up on her own. (We'll let her pretend the couch wasn't helping).

That's about it for now.