Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve, South Eastern Minnesota was hit with a snow/ice/rain mix of weather- luckily we did not have to travel, instead we played outside-the weather was perfect for digging tunnels! 

After going inside we got ready for Christmas Eve Mass.  Later that night we set out milk and cookies for Santa and had fun watching him cross the globe online.  Then it was off to bed to anxiously fall asleep...Christmas morning we woke up to find that Santa had come to our home during the night!  Not only did he drink all of his milk (for big muscles) and eat all the cookies...but he left a bunch of presents under our tree!  Ben and Tommy were very excited- and had so much fun opening their presents with the directions that all of them were to share (a direction from Santa himself via letter!) It is so much fun watching the excitement of the boys open their presents~and playing all day long with them!  Enjoy the pictures!

Enjoying the tent from Gramma and Grampa Helfer!

Check out this excitement!


Monday, December 21, 2009

Helfer Family Christmas

This year for Christmas with the Helfer's we decided to meet in the Wisconsin Dells at Mt. Olympus. We had so much fun swimming and going down the waterslides at the indoor waterpark
and playing at the indoor theme park!
We also had a special Christmas celebration-
the boys got so many great things, including two giant semis...filled with cars!
Daddy and Ben were very excited when Ben opened his new GB Packers shirt.
We had so much fun spending time with Gramma and Grampa- we can't wait to do it again!