Christmas 2010

Our Christmas Card this year


Christmas morning at 7am...we've slacked compared to the old days


Well, this post is EXTREMELY late, but we figured we better get it on here before another month passes.

We had a great Christmas this year. The highlights definitely included having EVERYONE on both sides of our family home for Christmas. It was so great to be with all of the family. Having Lincoln's brothers in from out of state, and Anna's sister here from Macedonia made the holidays extra sweet.



The other highlight, of course, was that this year we could see Lane understand Christmas a little bit more than last year. It was fun to watch him unwrap some presents--or unwrap part of the present. He opened up a new toy train at Grandpa and Grandma Traeger's house and said "choo choo!" for quite a while (pictured above).



As always, we really enjoyed the infamous Traeger Christmas Eve Ramschnitzel dinner (above) and the much-anticipated Eagar Christmas breakfast (below). We still miss Grandpa and Grandma Eagar as well as Aunt Judy at that breakfast.



Other highlights included an extra special Polar Express-themed Hamblin Christmas party, Lincoln and Anna singing a duet together at the party, and finally getting all of the Eagar boys together to play basketball like the old days. Another fun thing we did was have a little Christmas musical program and Nativity Scene on Christmas Eve.

We also enjoyed making candy trains, going shopping with Erin, and the New Year's Day party with the Eagar cousins.

While we were still in Surprise, we enjoyed making fudge mint brownies and taking them around to our neighbors and those we home & visit teach. Our friends across the street also came over with some surprise gifts for us. Lincoln enjoyed baptizing one of his Young Men and attending the baptism of a nice couple that is new to our ward. Also memorable was heading up a service project with the Priests Quorum where we trimmed a big palo verde of a single sister in our ward, which was badly needed and a great help to that family.

We took it all in, and enjoyed every minute of it. Below are some pictures from Christmas 2010:


Lane slept through most of the opening of gifts at the Traegers, but he awoke near the end and started opening gifts


Lane shooting a soccer ball at his new Toy Story 3 hoop for the bathtub. He's wearing Christmas jammies made by his talented Mom.




Our house at Christmas time


Grandpa and Ryan opening Christmas gifts in front of the TV Fire. We were all so warm this year, that we talked Grandpa into holding off on the real fire for a while.


Lindsey and Hannah checking out the new airplane from Santa. Hannah looking as cute as ever in her new Christmas jammies made by Aunt Anna.


Anna is holding in her hands an item that combines two of Lane's greatest loves: Basketball and Toy Story. In a showing of his undying love for basketball, Lane received 3 different basketball hoops this Christmas: this one (pictured) for the bathtub, a kid-sized one for his room, and another smaller one that can hang anywhere. This in addition to the one he got from the neighbors that he has in the backyard. Overkill? Yeah, probably.

We hope you all had a great Christmas!