Merry (brown) Christmas

Joel had to be on-call over Christmas. He started on Friday (his birthday) and will be done on Tuesday. Since he wasn't able to leave our house this year, we did things a little differently. Christmas Eve: Eli had a case of my favorite childhood illness... the one where you don't feel well right before it's time to go to church (he must not know that his mother mastered that one). Noah and I went to church, and then we opened a few presents at home.
Christmas Day: We hosted my family. Jen's sister, Rachel, had a Christmas baby, and with all of the EARLY morning baby excitement and Christmas fun, Katelynn ended up getting sick in the evening. It was probably a good thing they didn't have to travel.

I had this great idea that all of the kids could lay on our bedroom floor to watch a movie and fall asleep, so the adults could open gifts. HA! Some of them watched the movie, and in the end, only Noah ended up sleeping in our room....in our bed. We had a good time, and luckily, Joel didn't have to work. More Christmas celebrating to come!

Tae Kwon Do

Noah earned the first stripe on his white belt tonight!

Truax Christmas at the Lake