. . . Mount Royal Madness . . .

Merry Christmas to all & soon to be a Happy New Year! I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas with family & friends...Well we had a week full of festivities-We had Grandma Kloeppel's birthday party the week before & Nancy's & Dad's xmas party..then Christmas eve I had my grandma, sis & bro over for brunch (while my last minute husband shopped-no hostility here! lol) then we got to go to his aunt & uncle's for the night...I begged Nate to open our presents that night but he insisted it must be done in the morning but the generous sucker let me open 1 gift which was the movie "Four Christmases" So we watched that & then came Christmas morning whoohoo. We had our annual Christmas morning tradition and read the Christmas story from the book of Luke then got to the gift opening followed by an eventful day at my dad/nancy's and his aunt/uncle's house...then on Sunday night we hung out & went to dinner at my sis work with Grandma & Mel before they went back home to FL-they will be missed! Also we want to wish grandma an early HAPPY BIRTHDAY-we love you! So all we can say is we had an AMAZING Christmas break & feel so blessed to have such wonderful family & friends in our life!

PS. For those of you who don't know our family very well we like to tease, make fun of, laugh and play tricks on each other-pretty much all the time! So as you will see below my aunt & uncle brought over fake "poop" and placed it in our house making my sis think it was her dog Eilleen & she tried so hard to secretively pick it up without my dad noticing but failed & then realized the joke was on her...also my brother got this gift that took forever to unwrap & finally when he did it was his very own barbie doll! Haha...see my bro use to like to cut, pull the heads off & pretty much destroy our barbie dolls when we were younger so they thought he needed his very own!