Christmas, Christmas

This weekend we celebrate both the Nistler Christmas and the Schultz Christmas. It was a back to back days of fun.  We started with the Nistler's at Dan & Heidi's house.  We had a great meal and hung out to watch the kids.  Christmas sure has changed with little kids running around and they are the center of attention.  Derek really enjoyed watching his older cousin play & dance around.  We even got a few cute photos:

Reading stories with his cousin

Checking out the opened presents

Reading stories with Grandpa

Walking with Granpda

I thought for sure he would be interested in opening presents this year now that he's a bit older but he wasn't.  He was interested in playing with some of the toys after they were opened but he much preferred walking with Grandpa Chuck all over the house.

The Schultz side of the family celebration was the next day.  Not quite the level of excitement because Derek is the only little one around but we still had a great, relaxing time.  Despite having a "small" Christmas with everyone choosing a name this year (because of the cruise), there were still so many more gifts than I ever expected.  We opened presents in the afternoon, again Derek didn't really care about presents so we opened most of them when he was napping.

Not sure about this hat, Katie

He LOVED these singing dancing snowman

I had been telling my mom about this portable chair I was trying to find (I wanted it before we left for Milwaukee for Christmas) and how I had even called every Babies R Us/Toys R Us store in the state without any luck.  Amazon had it in stock but it would take to long to be delivered.  It's nice because it has so many different ways to use it and it works everywhere because it just straps onto the chair.  Some of the best reviews I've ever seen on a product.  She managed to find this chair - I couldn't believe it!!

Eating Christmas dinner in his new chair

After presents we ate some of the best pot roast I've ever had.  Mom was using us as guinea pigs for a meal she was planning later for hosting Bunco.  I'll happily be a guinea pig again - yum!!!

Overall we had a wonderful weekend full of family and fun.