Our Christmas Celebration

We spent Christmas Eve with our good friends, Wendy & Curtis. Dan spent the morning hunting for ducks and the boys and I spent the morning cooking a different bird (turkey!) I've only made a turkey a few times and every time I do I feel so grown up. And a big thank you to my mom who probably took about ten phone calls from a frazzled daughter that never remembers how to make a turkey! The dinner was delicious and the company even better. After dinner we headed to Wendy and Curtis' church for their Christmas Eve service. They had a wonderful service filled with children ringing bells (yes, Dane got to participate), a puppet singing "Mary, Did You Know" and congregation members reading and singing throughout the service. We then headed home to all put on our new Christmas jammies, read The Night Before Christmas and then headed to bed.
Here are a few photos of Christmas Eve.

Our Christmas morning began with reindeer sausage for breakfast. So wrong, but so tasty - a new Hubert tradition.

Once Dane was allowed to dive under the tree (in true Hubert style, Dane was forced to wait until all the camera equipment was set and ready to go) he did most of the opening of presents and he loved every minute of it! Although, once he found the box filled with airplanes and helicopters it was difficult to get him to open any more as documented by the second picture below. Thank you to all the people that sent us wonderful gifts for Dane and Jaeger. They were spoiled rotten and Dane is still asking to open more presents each morning.

Note to self: Next year buy Christmas jammies with a little more pizazz!

Merry Christmas!

Despite the fact we had to wait until 9:04 to open presents (see video below!) we had a fabulous Christmas. The only thing missing was our family and we missed you all dearly but we loved that we got to see many of you on Skype and visit with the rest of you on the phone.



*Disclaimer - You'll have to watch the video sideways (sorry!) but it's only 35 seconds and it's totally worth it. Dane is hysterical!

**And now for a quiz. Who can guess what Dan was doing in the background while poor Dane had to wait to open presents?

Merry Christmas Eve

Here are a few photos from our recent trip to see Santa Claus. Dane was thrilled to see Santa arrive in a "ha-cock", but not so thrilled to see him up close and personal. We didn't want a repeat of last years picture, so Dane doesn't have a picture with Santa this year. Oh well. He does, however, really like to sing "Santa Claus is Coming To Town" and "Must Be Santa" but is quite adamant about not liking him. Whenever he is asked about Santa his response is "I do not like Santa Claus!"

Santa arriving via helicopter (only in Alaska!)


Santa heading into Home Depot


The excitement of it all!


Who needs Santa when you have drills?


This cutie didn't seem to mind Santa one bit.


And just for good measure, here is a reminder of how Dane felt about Santa last year.

This is how 3/4 of us felt...

after an extremely LONG day of traveling to San Francisco.



This is how the happy guy in the family felt....




We're still not sure what in the WORLD we were thinking taking back to back vacations with 2 young children, but once we get out lives back under control here in Juneau we'll let you know. :)

Roll over, roll over send Jaeger right over!