Burgau Christmas

Rachel bought the kids cute sweaters from Children's Place!

Snuggies were the gift of the year. Go Gophers!

Craig can now wear maroon and gold clothes as he has a cap to match!!

After we got plowed out of Heidi and Joel's, my Dad had to drive me home to get my things for the next Christmas...our street wasn't plowed so our van couldn't get through, so Dad took me in the truck. Rachel and Bryant made it back from Montevideo mid-afternoon. After everyone shoveled driveways and got organized we could finally have Xmas!! We had lots of presents to open, a wonderful dinner, margaritas, and a fun new game....Mexican train dominoes! We continued our tradition of staying over. Bryant even stayed this year (last year he walked home in a blizzard)...we stayed up after the kids went to bed playing dominoes. My parents surprised me with a new camera.....so I can continue blogging! YAY!!
What a GREAT weekend of Christmas's!!

Xmas Eve/Xmas Day/Day after Xmas!!

Is that a snow plow I see already?? We cheered as we saw a snowplow coming into the neighborhood...Brent even went out with bare feet to make sure he made it over to get us out!! 17 inches of snow and usually Heidi and Joel are the last in town to get plowed.....not this time. We all left sat. morning after my Dad and Craig took Joel's plow to our house and the Bergeson house!!!
The kids played great the whole time. The video games were a favorite.

Sign of a true Schwantz.....gotta like chips and dip! Austin fits right in. I was very proud of my pepper bowls.

Krista and I helped Heidi make her festive pancakes!

We moved Xmas to Heidi and Joel's due to bad weather predictions....turns out we would have been fine going to Connie and Steve's...but we still had fun!!! Here is Joel with his new Iowa snuggie...maybe it will make living in MN a little more fun??!!

Xmas Eve

Filling the plate for Santa

Katelynn LOVES rommegrot!

Xmas Eve I had Gma Cella and Mom and Dad over after church since they didn't go to Perham because of the weather. Katelynn's choir sang in church and then we had a nice dinner..here we are eating one of our favorite Xmas treats...rommegrot!!

Xmas Cookies....num!

Craig made sugar cookies and frosting from scratch....they worked very hard and they were very good!

Christmas Program!

can't forget about the supportive little brother....he enjoyed peeking through the railings looking for "KiKi"!
Katelynn is sort of middle left.....very cute program!

Happy 5th Birthday Katelynn!!

Grandma Connie had a "project" for the kids...coloring her Christmas Cards...I think Katelynn took this job very seriously...I think Austin got fired!

Can't believe Katelynn is 5!! Katelynn and I had a date to The Princess and the Frog...so cute! Then we had some family over for tacos (one of Katelynn's favorites!) She LOVED her fun Barbie cake (and no, I did not make that!)

Beach Party!!

My pictures aren't the best and my camera is now broken (yikes!!) but here are a few shots from the bday party! We had Katelynn's kid party this morning. It was nice to do it a week early before everyone gets too busy with Christmas....and yes Katelynn wore her sundress and Austin wore is swimshorts...we were pretending it was the middle of summer!! We made a Christmas ornament, had (Duane's) pizza and cupcakes, and opened LOTS of fun presents! Katelynn REALLY wanted Duane's. It was a good request as all the kids ate a lot of pizza! After the party we went to the CC basketball game and I brought 2 TIRED kiddos home after the women's game! Hopefully Heidi will have some better pictures on her blog!

Holiday Baking!!

This is the extent of my Holiday baking...and a family favorite! We did the regular hugs/m & m's and also tried the new candy cane hershey kisses with the pretzels.....num!! Craig will have to take it from here!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Daddy's helpers were out shoveling with him this morning...we have a beautiful little layer of snow that looks really pretty right now, the tree and decorations are up, the christmas CD's are out, there are a FEW presents wrapped so far....let the season begin!

IMA Christmas Party!!

fun times at the "after" party!
the lab girls!!

We had a great time at the IMA christmas party. We had a nice dinner at the country club, fun christmas presents, and then an after party at the Cajun Cafe for more fun and darts! ( I think Craig gets more excited for this party every year than I do, but we both seem to have lots of fun and usually end up staying later than planned)! I did win 1 game of darts...an added bonus!!

*Thank you Heidi for being our taxi* Heidi came to pick us up after the party and probably got home a little later than she wanted....so THANK YOU!!

The highlight of my night was having supper with my nephews.....We watched the Peterson boys while Heidi and Joel and a supper out. Eli and I had quite the conversations.....
1. Jen "what did you learn at school today?"
Eli "We didn't learn anything"
Jen "what did you do?"
Eli "Well...we got to have a BEFORE lunch snack!!" (the highlight of his day I think!) :)

2. Jen "are you coming to Katelynn's party?"
Eli (spelling W-H-A-T) party?

3. Eli "I am ready for my (spelling I-c-e-c-r-e-a-m!) I can't believe he can just pull words out of the air and spell them!!!!!

4. Eli doesn't eat sauce on his spaghetti noodles, he told me he was eating "Spa-noodles"!

the rest of the supper conversation was about who poops at school and who wipes themselves when they go!! :)

I loved it.