Happy New Year!!

Well, Christmas has come and gone once again. We had a really good Christmas, but it was extremely busy. We celebrated Christmas at our house on the 22nd with the boys. It was so much fun, Jadyn was really excited. We even did the whole milk and cookies for Santa the night before. Jadyn didn't think it was very nice that Santa ate all the cookies! Ashtyn was in the best mood ever that morning and just kept laughing and talking. It was so cute. When Jadyn opened his cars he said "This is fantastic! They're so cute!" It was lots of fun. Kids really make Christmas! We then ventured out to Borden for Christmas with my Dad's side of the family on the 23rd, then went to Mom & Dad Dueck's that night, where we had a really yummy Dutch supper and spent the evening relaxing. We spent the night, and were awakened early by Ryan's 20 year old brother Shayne, who turns into a big kid at Christmas. It's pretty funny. We all got lots of fun stuff, including new bedding, curtain, and curtain rod, and perfume for me! We relaxed all day, then had an amazing steak, chicken, & shrimp supper topped off with cheesecake! That evening we headed to my parents house for Christmas #4. Everyone was home except my brother Trevor and his wife Christi who live in Vancouver and couldn't make it home this year. We really missed them, but we still managed to have a lot of fun. Christmas morning we opened more presents, which took forever with 3 kids (my 2 and my brother Brent's 1), but eventually we got it done and we were spoiled once again. Here I came home with some new clothes, new dishes, and a home design program which I am really excited about. We played lots of games and ate lots of food and had a great time.
On the 29th we went to Calgary to spend Christmas with my Mom's side of the family. It was really good to see all my aunts and uncles again, and we spent New Years with our good friends David & Hayley, who we always have so much fun with, and are always sad to leave. Ryan wrote an exam at SAIT on the 2nd, and after some shopping we were on our way back to our house finally. Christmas was really fun, but we were definitely ready to come home and get back to reality. So that is our Christmas in a nutshell (or slightly larger).