christmas 2011

Christmas Eve in the Blonquist Home.

Our little Christmas elf...

Aunt Toto with the little man

Mommy and Babe

Parents with elf

The yummy food courtesy of my awesome mom!

pork, roast beef, stuffed chicken

potatoes, stuffed mushrooms, sweet & sour cabbage, breaded cauliflower

Boston cream pie, peppermint ice cream with candy cups, raspberry mouse (not pictured: key lime cheesecake)

Opening presents: German tradition

Opening Christmas pajamas

My mom made this pillow mattress for Benson. He has been sleeping on it almost every night since.

MSI adventure

Josh got off work early today (New Year's firm holiday), so we went to lunch as a family to ROSEBUD ($5 hamburgers at lunch!) and then we decided to head to the MSI (museum of science and industry) for our weekly museum run. As always we had a blast!

 

Ben and Josh in the wind tunnel--it blasts wind gusts of 80 mph at you. Ben loved it!

Apollo 8 landing module in the space exhibit-- Josh's favorite exhibit.

It was a fun day. Can I say what a champ Case was??! He slept through lunch and the MSI plus a little bit when we got home. A total of 5 hours! awesome!

mommy fail

i need to pay closer attention to what is happening on the other side of the lens.

disclaimer: no baby was harmed in this photo shoot :) he giggled when i rushed over and picked him up.

back & forth

i can never decide if i like pictures in color or black & white....

anywho, here's a photo shoot with cason's pal--chewy 2 (ben also has a chewy hence the #2)

her day & brothers

It's Josh's grandma, Inez's, birthday today! Happy birthday, Gramma! We love and miss you!

Brothers

 Ben



so random

too bad Case is a little fuzzy in this picture!

 some random fun we've been having around here....

merry christmas

merry christmas, everyone!

merry & bright

...and may all your Christmases be white

park

on tuesday we headed to our neighborhood park. it was a beautiful sunny day and we needed some vitamin d! so off we went. ben loves the park, and he had fun even though he was the only kid brave enough to be outside in 40 degree weather.

just a random shot of cason. cute kid!

Field Museum

Aunt Tori is in town for Christmas break. She joined us at the Field Museum yesterday.

It was a lot of fun testing out the beds in the Egypt exhibit.

 This is the life! Warm and cozy, getting pushed around in a stroller, half asleep, and drunk on milk.