Never A Permanent Address, But Permanent Family And Friends....: A Perfect Holiday!

This year we spent Christmas with Andy's family in MN. We were so excited to go back as all of his brothers were home with their families and it's been way to long since we've all been together!

Madison was in the news to be hit by a large snow storm a few days before we were suppose to start our seven hour drive to MN, so we decided to to leave early. Which was a great decision as as Madison was hit with 20 inches!!!

As soon as we arrived at Grandma and Grandpa's it was total spoiling!! It started with fresh nail polish for Claire with in five seconds of being there!

So this is Claire "helping" make the crust for our homemade Christmas Eve pizza! The best part was Mary Lou (Andy's mom) and I just let her have at the flour and she had a blast in it!!

The cookies are ready for Santa and the kiddos are beyond excited!

Andy in his Christmas jammies Christmas morning

One of our daily activities in MN was ice fishing. Let me be more specific...one of the boys daily activities was ice fishing!

Andy's parents have a great set up for it owning two ice houses, so it's pretty comfortable!

(The boys walking out to the ice house on the frozen lake in the photo above)

One of the fishing houses has bunk beds in it and a heater!

The first morning out we caught 20+ fish!!!

Andy's twin brother Aaron

Andy could not ask for a better fishing buddy. Drew would fish ALL DAY. He wakes up at 5 am with the big boys for the early bite and is usually dressed and standing at the door before them ready to go!

Drew caught this one!!!

There front yard is a perfect sledding hill!

Claire looking at the large hill she now has to walk up

Right behind his parents house is about 40 acres of woods! We would take the four wheeler out and pull the kiddos on sleds

Something kind of sad, however beyond exciting was meeting our niece and Drew and Claire's cousin for the first time!!! Parker was born while we were living in Spain and is just a year behind Claire. The two of them were in heaven with each other. I love the military life, however this is for sure the hardest part!!