The Holiday Season

It's been a while since I've blogged anything recent... Christmas was just way to busy!!

We spent Christmas Eve at the Wienses. We opened up presents, ate pizza buns, went to the Christmas Eve service at Dalhousie and played some games. Mark and I are horrible at remembering our camera... so no pictures of any of that.

That night we came back home and opened up presents just the three of us (even Duke got Christmas presents!!) Duke got right into it and loved shredding the wrapping paper. He didn't even really care about his presents... he was just happy with the paper. After all the presents were unwrapped, I schooled Mark at Connect Four.

Christmas day we got up really early and went to my mom and dad's house for French toast, stockings and presents, and then it was off to the Christmas morning service at Emmanuel. WAY too much church if you ask Mark... but neither of us were ready to give up our traditions yet. After church we went to my grandpa and grandma's to have turkey dinner with all of the Vanderveens. Then spent the rest of the day there playing games and enjoying one another's company.

Crazy Mark and Louis then went and stood in line at Visions at 12:00am for the big boxing day sale (already then at 12:00am they were 18th in line!) Louis bought an Xbox 360 so he could be cool like Mark and Justin (Mark told me to write that) and Mark bought us a dvd camcorder for when the baby comes. Then it was back to the Wienses for games and dinner with the Gambles, the Friesens and the Wienses (Uncle Garhard and Aunt Cindy) and the Wienses (Henry and Netty).


(Crazy Louis)

Last night for New Year's we had TJ and Kelly and Justin and Jessiya over. We had a BLAST playing Cranium and Catch Phrase. We were having so much fun we almost missed the countdown! And this time I am the one who gets to brag... my team won Catch Phrase 4 out of 5 times!! AND us girls also kicked the boys butt in Cranium the first round. We played until about 3:00am, and then everyone went home. Again, Mark and I are horrible with the camera and we have NO pictures of last night.

Today the Brandses left to go back home to Vermont and Grandpa and Grandma also left in their motorhome for down south. Back to normal life I guess.