Bella attempted to open her present.....but in reality....Colby opened all of them for her. I think it might turn into a fight when Bella actually learns to open presents herself, as it's one of Colby favorite activities.
We headed up to Nebraska for Christmas this year. We left earlier than planned to miss the Christmas blizzard that was headed our way. We made it with no problems and even got to enjoy an extra night out with old friends from Plattsmouth. Then the snow hit, and the winds hit, and they kept coming. Christmas Eve was cancelled as most of our extended family was traveling from another town. And then on Saturday when we were supposed to make our way towards Columbus to spend time with the Kuhlen side, some of the roads/highways were closed because of the still blizzard conditions. So we waited it out until Sunday and then decided to head back to KC. We will celebrate with the Kuhlens once we can enjoy more time spent with them, and a lot less snow!!
And no we did not take any pictures of the snow. It's hard to tell how much there is from pictures anyways. But Jesse can account for how much we even got in Kansas City just by how long it took him to scoop our very long driveway, needless to say all the snow blowers were sold out by the time we got back into town. Let's just hope we have one before the next snow storm hits, oh wait that's supposed to be in two days. Let's just hope it's a small storm.
Or maybe this one should be called, Mrs. Claus Take One. We had a big day planned to head to Crown Center and Union Station. Bella did great and enjoyed being out, although I'm not sure how much she was actually able to take in. But we have lots of pictures to share of the morning. Of course the big moment with Mrs. Claus didn't turn out so well, only because Bella didn't raise her head, but that's what Christmas pictures are all about....screaming children frightened of Santa.....or in our case.....a little girl who can't always pick her head up. Enjoy.
The Christmas Train was located outside Union Station. We waited probably close to an hour to board, but luckily the line was indoors, and you only had to go outside right as you were boarding the train.
Union Station has a very large set up of model trains. It's quite a sight to see.
This was at the Westin where they had a beautiful tree decorated. Many people were having professional photographs taken in front of this tree. We got in for a quick snap shot.
And lastly we saw frosty the snowman and Garfield at Crown Center.....I can't explain Garfield either. Frosty walked away from us when we were going to take a picture with him, so we caught Garfield instead.
We hosted our first Christmas party this past weekend. And we themed it to have guests dress up as movie characters from their favorite Christmas movies. There were quite a few creative costumes....and I think Eddie from Christmas Vacation was the hands down winner.
An exciting update for Bella. She has now begun to roll all the way across rooms. She started out on her blanket in this picture, and is almost out of the room. She even switches the direction of the rolls, although she hasn't mastered switching which way she rolls. Meaning if she is rolling from her right side, she continues to roll from her right side. But she can pivot her body, so that she is rolling in different directions. Some day we will take a video, but for now she isn't very fast, we would have to figure out how to speed it up :-)
