Merry Christmas...and Happy New Year

We were supposed to spend Christmas day at my parents and head to Iowa the next day. However, the snow changed our plans. Joel and Jen both had to work Christmas Eve., so everyone came to our house for a cozy 3 day snowed-in event (little did we know that the storm would hit later and we could've made it to Mom and Dad's)
With a lot of help from my Dad, brother and the friendly snowplow guy (Brent was standing outside in his bare feet flagging down the snowplow), everyone was able to take off Saturday. We decided to wait until Sunday to head to Iowa. The roads were still terrible, but we made it.
Grandma Cathy had purchased a DS for Eli's b-day, but it turned into his "must have" Christmas item. It was at least 24 hours after opening Santa gifts that he said "Hey, why didn't Santa bring me a DS?"

We had a fun week in Iowa, and everyone had a great time at Grandma's New Year's Eve board game party!!