After we arrived home from our visit with the Cameron side of our family, it was time to spend the New Years weekend with the Skaling side!! When we got there, we settled in and the first thing we did was open gifts!! The girls were all so excited about the gifts, and cousins, that bedtime was very late that night!!

                                                          Big cousin Abbi, waiting for Eva to open her present.

                                           Elin's new doll!!

                              Emmy and Grammie

                                                       This was Elin's beautiful gift from Aunt Julia and Uncle Michael ...her very own tutu!!

                                      This gift was the crowning event of the evening....Emmy had to cover her eyes( or have them covered!) while Grampie brought up her gift..

                                           Her very own super sled! She was ecstatic,and couldn't wait to get the chance to try it out. She has wanted a sled for a while now.

                                       Elin having a ball with all Grammie's toys.

                                                          Playing with Abbi

                                       Great Grammie Prall came over for a visit, and had dinner with all of us . All the cousins sat at the table with her.

                                                    Playing with Grammie

                                        Eva getting to hold the newest cousin.,..a boy cousin!! Ezra's birth created quite a ripple in our family...after 7 granddaughters...we finally got a baby boy! He is the sweetest little chubby thing!

                                                      Elin and Grammie having a game of giggles

                                                   Ezra and me having a chat...he got quite animated,and was so cute smiling.

                                          Auntie Ang and Elin

                       This was so sweet, Emily and I had gone to Frenchy's for a little shopping trip earlier that day, and I gave her her own spending money, well, she got a couple of barbie dolls for herself, and then began scouring the bins to find gifts for her little sisters. She found this tiny baby carrier for Eva, and Eva was smitten! We got her baby all strapped in and her face says the rest!!

                                                   Elle reading with Uncle Shawn.

                                                Em and Phronsie snuggling. Emily quickly got tired of trying to get to sleep with a squirming puppy in her sleeping bag, and decided to put her back in her kennel. Phronsie could only take so much of the snuggling, then would get up and zoom around the room a couple of times, over top of the sleeping girls, then back to Em for another few minutes.

                                               Skip-bo with Grammie.

                   Elle and Sami playing computer games.We  hardly saw our girls the whole 3 days we were there.They were stuck like glue to their cousins. It was so fun to see them having so much fun playing with them.

                                                       Falling asleep on Grammie.

                            This was how our family celebrated New Years...It was quite the party!!  Shawn and Ang bought party crackers,which we all had fun opening, and trying on our party hats!!

                                Reading the fortunes inside of the crackers

                 Eva found a little red basket and took it upon herself to clean up all the cracker wrappers! We also had a talent show,which we will all never forget I'm sure!! Our vacation was over New Years day, but what a week it had been!! I'm so thankful for the blessing of wonderful family, and the chance to get together with them!