Christmas at the Olsons

Yes there has already been several family blogs with these pictures but since it was at our house I wanted to put some up myself :) Here is our cute family! So the family Christmas was a little crazy this year. We had the parties early this year so that our "kids" could have Christmas at home with their kids. Michael, Rachael and their kids came in Thursday evening and Jennie, Mike & Sophie came later in the night. Friday was a running around day for Jennie & Me and that was fun but at some point on Friday Jennie found out that their dog, Bjorn, had gotten out of the fence at her sister in law's house. Then very late Friday night around 11:30 our power went out. By Saturday morning at around 5:30 AM I was at 7-Eleven getting ice for a cooler to try to save food for our family party on Saturday evening. I kept hoping the power would come on and we even started cooking the turkey over at Kyle's. Some time during all of the commotion going on it appeared that our cat got outside and we couldn't find him. Around 1 PM we decided to try to find a generator and tracked one down out in Covington so Kent and Laif went to go get it. Then Jennie got a call and her dog was found hiding under a car at a grocery store so her SIL went to go get him. The guys got home with the generator and hooked up about 2:00 PM and we plugged in the fridge and one lamp. We were ready to see what else we could get hooked up when the power came on about 2:30. I'm sure if we hadn't gotten then generator the power would have stayed out (at least that is the story I tell myself) Then about 1 hour later Kent and I were upstairs and Kent heard the cat. He was just taking a very long nap on a bed under packages. He just looked at us like "what were you looking for me?" So the dog was found, the power came on and the cat appeared. All that was wrong became right in about 2 hours.

So onto the evenings Christmas festivities and then to Christmas morning with all of the immediate family (23 people).

The 2 youngest additions! Olive and Christopher are so adorable!