Christmas!!

Christmas had to come early this year at the Hafer house, because Maddy and Bailey were going to be with their mom on Dec. 25th. So, we were able to call the parent hotline and arrange for an early drop-off. Deborah and Kendle were kind enough to come up and hang out with us from Monday afternoon until this morning. Tuesday night (our 'Christmas Eve') we made Christmas dinner and invited Dana and Tristin over to join us. Darrell's Dad had to work so he came over on Sunday night to exchange gifts with us.

After dinner we let the kids each open one gift, and we drove out to see "Christmas in the Park", the drive-through light display near the house. The girls could hardly manage to stay in their room and go to sleep, but finally around 2 am the adults got everything finished up and went to bed, after spending some quality time 'killing' each other on Call of Duty, Darrell's most recent video game.

Here are a few pictures of the festivities and merriment of the past few days.

Deborah and Kendle

Chilling with Grandpa

All ready to go meet Santa

Santa's little helper

Chilling in front of the tree with the dad

Making a Gingerbread House

Maddy and Bailey, opening a gift on "Christmas Eve" with Tristin and Uncle Dana



Daddy, Daddy, Wake up! Santa Came! --Thankfully Bailey waited until about 7:45 to get us out of bed...


Surveying the loot