DeLange/DeKruyter Christmas Madness!

Our christmas week was very full and fun filled! We were constantly in the car though, but I guess that is what you get for moving to Wisconsin :)

Here is a break down of our trip:

Wednesday - Left for Grant, MI at 5am CST. Arrived and hung out there for the day.

Thursday - Celebrated christmas eve with the DeLange family in Grant. Hung out with family, played some Wii, played legos (with the nephews), and played games. In the evening we had the christmas party with Alec's parents and sibblings. It is tradition to make personal pizzas for dinner, so we did that and they were delicious! Then we opened presents, which was so much fun. We both got a new pair of Keen shoes (a brand of shoes the whole family is in love with) and some other clothing items, which is always great!

Friday - We left early in the morning for my parents house in Dearborn, MI. Arrived there and opened presents right away. We had such a good time, Alec and I got a space heater so we can turn the heat down in the house way low at night and use the space heater to keep us alive in our bedroom/bathroom. My mom made a fabulously amazing turkey lunch, so we all stuffed our faces as usual. We had an afternoon full of games and being lazy in front of the TV. In the evening Allyson and I were feeling a bit 'heafty' from our last few days of pigging-out and so we played DDR (Dance dance revolution) for a while to burn it off!

Saturday - We hung out in Dearborn some more with the family in the morning/early afternoon. Then headed back to Grand Rapids for the extended DeLange party. Allyson came back with us and hung out for the evening as well. We went back to Grant for the night and played some Ticket to Ride (best game ever!).

Sunday - Woke up and went to church, then came home and packed up all our stuff (which was all over his parents house....). We then headed to Holland, MI for yet another christmas party, the extended DeKruyter one. We had tons of fun chatting with family and then doing some snow-mobiling. We headed back to WI in the late afternoon.

All in all it was a great trip and we enjoyed all the time we were able to spend with our families. We are so blessed to have two lovings families and can't imagine not being with them over the holiday season. When we got home we had to take our christmas tree down pretty much right away.....it was very dead :( So now that christmas is officially over I am going to enjoy my last couple weeks of christmas break and look forward to starting nursing school on January 20.

We are heading back to GR in two weekends for a wedding and to see some of our friends we feel we have abandoned :) And we are also hoping that Alec's sister has her baby by then (whom we call Bitty). So we still have a lot to look forward too this month!