Trucks, Trucks, Trucks...

I guess I didn't even get a picture of her trucks, but today we went over to Gail's house next door to exchange gifts with Maison from the holidays. Whenever we are over at Gail's house, Rowan plays with all of Maison's trucks and boy toys, so Maison bought her some of her own trucks to play with. While we were there, Rowan took advantage of some of his new toys from the holidays as well. Would have gotten more pictures of the kids together, but Maison decided he didn't want pants on today, so I only took one picture of the pantsless boy!

Celebrating while Mom sleeps...

The Knutson Christmas was celebrated today, while I was busy sleeping between my shifts of work. So Ed and Rowan went to visit with everyone for a couple hours. Apparently Aunt Amanda was in charge of taking pictures, so my photo opportunities are limited. But you can see Rowan's cute red jumper she wore (dad even picked out this outfit, not bad!) Great Grandma Audrey was home from Florida too, so she got to visit with them also!

Santa Came...

Well, Santa was good to us all this year. Rowan had us up at 6am sharp, not that she had a clue that the man in red had left her more presents, but she was up at her earliest. We continued with our usual daily routine, bottle of milk, some tv in mom and dad's bed, and then ventured downstairs. Dad was actually in more of a hurry to get downstairs because he wanted to see how Rowan reacted to the gifts!

She was excited as always, and had no problem opening as many gifts as possible, whether they were her own or not.

Her big ticket item this year was a play kitchen. Along with a tent and tunnel. She seems to be into all of them, but always wants mom and dad to climb through the tunnel too, and dad's shoulders are too wide, and mom barely fits through. So it can be interesting.

Hard to believe her 2nd Christmas is over already, and she loved it so much. Not sure we will be sad about saying goodbye to The Grinch Movie though, we had a bit of overkill of that show this year.

When it Rains...It Pours...

...and no, we aren't talking about the weather!

Recap...

Last Friday, December 18th, Ed received a job offer from a company in Menomonee Falls. On Monday the 21st, he accepted the job offer. Tuesday the 22nd, he put in his 2 weeks at OshKosh Corporation, with his last day being January 8th, and 1st day in at MTE in Menomonee Falls being January 11th.

Then, on the 23rd, OshKosh got approval to hire him, but didn't have enough information to talk numbers. Therefore, we aren't for sure going to be staying in town, depends on what type of offer, if any, OshKosh can get together before January 8th! And that is where we stand!

Congratulations Ed!
(Rowan and I made him a big sugar cookie on Wednesday, but he got home before we finished frosting it, and wrecked the surprise!)

Xmas with The Hanson's...

After Rowan's nap that lasted merely an hour....

...we headed to Sussex to visit with the Hanson family for the Holidays!

Rowan was quite the ham...she was very good, you never would have known that she was lacking in sleep! She still tried to open presents that weren't hers, and was very social with everyone. She loved their fish tank. Aunt Ashley let her look in through the top, so she kept wanting to look some more! She snacked all afternoon and evening! There was a snowman when you came downstairs that danced and sang, and Rowan loved it. She kept on giving it hugs and dancing with it, very cute! Shortly after 6pm we were on our way home to get our little girl to bed so she can enjoy her Christmas at home with us tomorrow. She has been a good girl this year, so Santa needed her in bed in order to deliver her gifts, assembled!

Christmas Eve with Knutson Family...

Today we spent the morning with Grandma Julie, Grandpa Kris, Amanda and Mitchell!

And boy were we all spoiled! We came home with a heaping box of gifts. Again, Rowan wanted to open everyone's gifts, and was excited even if it wasn't for her. We also indulged in a gigantic breakfast made by Grandpa! It was delicious! We didn't even eat lunch! Rowan had a good morning, she made them all watch the Grinch, we played a little Wii, and played with a few of Rowan's new toys! Then it was home to get Rowan a nap before heading to Aunt Kathy's in the afternoon to visit with the Hanson Family!

Christmas with Nana and Papa Smith...

Let's start with: Rowan loves presents, doesn't matter whose they are!

She has become an expert present opener. And despite what she opens, or if it is even hers, she oooohhssss, and aaahhhhsss. Super cute! She was interested in what everyone got and helped everyone with their gifts.

Rowan and Kieran played very well together! Rowan seemed to want to destroy everything as usual, and Kieran didn't really get mad at her. They ran around together, played trains, pushed each other on toys, you name it, no fighting! Rowan is even interested in our IPhones now that Kieran added a few applications while he was here.

We had a wonderful taco bar this year, and were barely hungry to even eat it after all the snacking and entertainment going on in the house. Not to mention the several types of cookies and desserts available as well.

We had a great time with everyone here to visit, it was a very busy day, and we all had fun. Hard to think by next Christmas there will be another child added to the mix. Molly is due at the end of January! Another boy!