Oh I never thought I would be so happy to see the holidays come and go. It seems more and more Christmas has become so overwhelming and drawn out and people forget the true meaning of Christmas. I know everytime I went shopping this year I seemed to find myself forgeting but Luke helped keep me grounded and reminded me that it's not how much we get our kids that matters.
We had a great holiday season and were truly blessed to be able to spend time with so much family. I think we ended up having a total of 5 Christmas celebrations this year. On the 20th we had Christmas with Luke's parents and all his brothers/sisters and their families, then we celebrated with just us on Christmas eve morning (that was really nice to have time to just be together), next we went to my parent's on Christmas eve and Christmas day, then to my Grandma's for lunch and then of course last weekend we had the big Schaper shin dig at Luke's parents house. I think @ one point they said there was about 80 people there...now that's a lot of Schapers. We had a lot of fun and I know Luke looks forward to it every year.
We also had a great (kind of suprise) visit from my brother Jeremy, his wife Summer and their "oh so cute and so sweet" baby boy Micah Rylan. It was so nice to be able to see them and I know they hear it so many times but I really do wish we lived closer so we could see them more. Logan and Micah seemed to really like "hanging out" with each other. They are about 2 months apart in age-Micah's older. Micah who has no hair really liked Logan's and his toys too. Micah army crawls so he could get to stuff a little quicker than Logan (who at that time was only scooting backward and in circles). They were so cute together. Case really took a liking to his cousin "Mat Mat" too. He was constantly in Micah's face giving him kisses.
I hope all had a wonderful holiday season too!!
Here are a few pictures I thought everyone would enjoy. I know Jer & Summer posted a couple of these on their blog but they were so cute I wanted everyone to see them.
Best buds & cousins Logan & Micah
Telling secrets already!!
They really liked each other.
Micah & Logan discovered that they had a lot of the same interests...chewing on their feet, toys & anything else they can get in their mouths.
The 3: Logan 5 mos., Dannee 31/2 mos. & Micah 7 mos...Dannee quickly realized she didn't like being in the middle of these two.
My nephew Cooper James. Don't let him fool you he's not as innocent as he looks...hahaha just kidding Matt & Dana.
Here are a couple of sweet pictures of our boys...
Mama Schaper & Kaitlynn...They're laughing because Case was running around snapping pictures with our camera. I think we have a future photographer in our house.
Jared Luke & Case Eli...I was a little suprised Jared was okay with this. He's usually not so fond of Case's slobber.
Aunt Sarah, Jenna & Uncle Adam
Couldn't keep Case out of the middle of the presents.
Logan working hard on the "computer" he got for Christmas
Case Eli was so proud of his new bike that Santa brought him. He later told us it wasn't Santa that brought it he said, "Jesus, bought me my new bike". We went with it. We figured that Jesus is better than Santa any day.
Here is Logan playing along with Case. He got a drill for Christmas (thank you Aunt Tesa(Teresa), Unc Anru(Uncle Andrew) & girls) & these are the safety glasses that came with it.
...and here's daddy playing along too. He's probably going to kill me for this picture.