Christmas and Christmas Break

The C-Mile Sibs made it on Santa's nice list!

The Bigs got their long hoped for Hatchimals!

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 Poor LJ, still not feeling well

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Emma got her painting set

and Mason got his Big Dump Truck

and then we surprised the girls with a spring break trip!  They each got a matching swimsuit with their favorite color.  Emma had a pair of goggles with hers, Libby had a toy airplane and Sally had the Florida State puzzle piece from a puzzle.  Sally put it all together and explained to the sisters!  We're pretty excited! 

Mason doesn't make the cut, he gets to hang back and have two on one time with Nana & Grandpa.  If he came along, I wouldn't get to be fun mom, I'd just have to care for him, and he would be a disaster on the beach.  God willing, there will be many more family trips in our future, he'll make the cut soon enough ;)

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When Sally understood what the gifts meant

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The rest of the day was a recovery day for Libby and lazy jammie day, play with all the toys day

 Battleship!

 Chasing trucks!

 Thanks Grandma and George for my new towel!

 Sally and I snuck away to the movie Wonder, so great! We read the book together, the book is always better, but the movie was pretty great too! 

 Daddy picked out and bought me a dress, he always second guesses himself, and I often send ideas and so I know what I'll be getting.  I love the dress, I'd pick it out myself, but I love it even more because he picked it out on his own!

 Libby took a looooong time to recover, like 4 days!  Ooof

 another fun gift, thanks Grandma and George

 Little Brother trying to get a turn with the Hatchimals

 My handsome little man!

 We love it when the Lindbergs come to visit! The kiddos always play so well together, which allows Mary and I to have some quality chatting time.  Thanks for taking the time to come and see us!  We met when Sally and Lucy were 3 months old.  From the beginning we talked about our future group of 7 kiddos and here they are!! So very grateful!

We were patiently awaiting the arrival of our new Goddaughter!!! Madison Genevieve arrived on December 27th healthy and beautiful and perfect! God is so good!! We cannot wait to meet her and celebrate her baptism in a few short days in Kansas!! Ready or not Joergers, the baby hogs will be headed your way, shortly! :)

Next up, Christmas celebrations with Nana and Grandpa and New Year's Eve

Christmas at Grandma & George's

**Before I forget, I edited and uploaded Libby's 6  year old interview, and it did the same thing it did for Emma's...skipping, picture freezes, so weird.  I'll have to do a dumb version of manually recording it playing on the computer.  To come one day...**

The girls were done with school Wednesday afternoon.  Thursday was a dedicated pj day and pack for Grandma and George's

The start of many hours clocked playing legos

Homemade caramel popcorn and Frosty the Snowman

Excited to head to Grandma and George's

 Mason's first Christmas

 How many sisters does it take to help baby brother open his present?

 answer: 3 excited sisters

 TRUCKS!

 Love the little tongue

 Love the series of these next pictures.  We have similar ones from Sally's 1st Christmas

 Hey Dad, did you see what I got?

 Baby Brother's in bed, time to get this party started ;)

 Grandma's turn!

 Magician Sally!

 She was so excited!

 Playing board games with Grandma, sporting her new dress and tights

 Miss Craigmile trying out her new school set, sporting her new dress and tights

 Salon Grandma, prepping for Saturday Mass

 Christmas stories before bed

 We woke up Christmas eve with Libby having a fever...Tis the season, tis the tradition.  One of the crew members always gets hit on Christmas Eve or Christmas, we're 5 years strong...the 6th year we had a newborn...not a great record to have...

Headed home to unpack and get ready for Christmas Eve Mass.  Libby had to sit out singing in the Choir.  Was fun to have Joey and Emily join us!

 Christmas Eve is one of my favorite evenings of the year

 Pictures before dinner and hours before Libby adds the stomach flu to the list of sicknesses...

 Third one has spunk...

 C-Mile Sibs!

 Merry Christmas from the Craigmile Crew!

She looks beautiful, for feeling like death...Excited to open her gifts from Godfather Joey!

 Mister Mason's turn to open his gift from Godmother Auntie Em

 The cutest! New shoes!

 "I like 'em"

 Christmas Eve Dinner minus a sick one and a baby in bed

 'Twas the Night before Christmas

 Emma opening her gift from her Godparents Thomas & Erin

 Sneaky Squirrel, a big hit, thank you!!

 Sally's gift from her Godfather Marc, she was so excited! Thank you!!

 Sally's note to Rusty before heading to bed and waiting for Santa

 Awaiting Santa's arrival, which luckily didn't get disturbed by LJ waking up a few times being sick.  Poor thing had the stomach flu on Christmas Eve night into Christmas Day, which took her 3 days to recover from :(

Next up, Christmas Day, Christmas Break and Nana and Grandpa's Visit