Merry Christmas Peeps

Merry Christmas! I just had to pull out this picture from a year ago. Can you believe how much this child has changed? I'm pretty sure that when she's older she may hate me for ever doing this to her, but at 1month, she really didn't have a choice. Her personality really shines now. Right now she's sitting on the floor making Trav play with her. And every time he gets up to try to work a little, she cries. She is learning too quick. Oops, he just snuck off. We'll see how long this blog is now, it may just be a bunch of pictures with no explanation.

Well, we *hope* that your Christmas was as full and wonderful and lovely as ours. We spent much time with family...and eating. and eating. and eating. Christmas Eve morning we traveled to my Dad and Linda's house for a HUGE breakfast. After which we opened presents.

We got headlamps. And they are so cool. And we are so cool wearing them. I even wore mine to the barn last night, rock on.

This is my brother, Ryan. He's a little different. He got this pink hat for Christmas, he wanted something to show off his more "feminine" side....no, not really. It's our neice's and Ryan was using it as earmuffs. Us Borcks, we can be loud.

Adalynn got a movie to watch. She really took a liking to movies and pictures...Travis gave me a picture frame with Adalynn, Kelsey, and Banks' pictures on Christmas. I showed it to Adalynn and she "ooohed" and "aaaahhhhed" for almost 5 minutes. I mean, I loved it, but 5 minutes?!

The gift that my nephew, Henry John, prized most is his brand spankin' new Fender Guitar and Amp. As he told my sister, "It's so shiny black!".

Here he is getting in the groove.

And putting on a concert. Check out that concentration!

Rock Star in Training for sure. He takes drum lessons now, and I guess they'll have to add in guitar lessons too. I mean, really, can you have this awesome of a guitar and NoT take lessons?

Adalynn got this rockin' pony. It looks quite like Kelsey, and when it's ear is pressed it starts galloping (well, sounds like it is), whinnies, and then snuffles. It's head moves up and down and it's muzzle even moves side to side. Kelsey2 can even live in our home with us! She's quite easy to take care of. We're easing Adalynn into this whole responsibility thing.

After presents we bundled up and walked across the street to the golf course, where we partook in the tradition of sledding. This being Adalynn's first year sledding, she was initiated using her brand new inflatable sled with back rest. And let me tell ya, I wish I had the service she had. She was pulled out to the hill, I'd run half way down and someone would push her. She flew down the hill, being a half-pint and able to skim the surface of the snow, until I caught her as she was traveling 50mph with an "Oomph!". Or so it seemed, really. She LOVED it, had this huge grin on her face...and she she learned that she could "ask" to go again, and we were worked pretty hard. It must be easy when you're being carried back up the hill.

We spent the rest of the afternoon/evening at Travis' mom's, traveling to his Aunt Jane's house for a short while to visit his dad's side.

Nik, Keagan, Caleb, and Max were SupEr excited about their presents. It was so hard for them to wait!

Nana gave Adalynn her first ponytail. Adalynn wasn't so sure, but she looked cute.

Naomi opened her bitty baby doll, quite enamored with making sure that her baby was going to be barefoot by the end of the night.

Adalynn took a nap, and made it through 75% of LaGrave's candlelight service before we returned home.

Christmas Day...

We stayed home and made people visit us. And ThaT was a GREAT idea.

In the morning, we woke late and opened our stockings and presents.

I didn't realize that Adalynn's sock situation was in such dire straits that even she was aware and embarrassed...she was definately in love with her 2 new packs of socks. Best gift ever, I guess.

Um...hello....where did my socks go?

You have other gifts dear. Adalynn's gift from Travis and I, besides the socks, was her ball pit.

She loves it, but isn't too thrilled when the balls get away from the pit. My little cleaner-upper actually walks around and picks up the balls, putting them back in the pit. What a good girl.

Early afternoon my mom, brother, Dad, Linda, Ed, and Deb came down for a scrumptious dinner complete with ham, turkey, mash-ed potatoes, corn (whole, for sure for potato toppings, right Trav?), and Raspberry pie and brownies to polish it all off. Mmmmmm.

Later, Rennae and John came out and brought us their presents. They had found us a Wii Fit, which is awesome...except maybe the best time to do it is NoT directly after a huge dinner!

Merry Christmas, hope everyone's was Great and can't wait to hear about them! Take care.