Merry Christmas!

Wow...time flies. Here it is almost February and we are just getting to the Christmas post. We were blessed to visit both Indiana and South Dakota (despite the bizzard) over our Christmas break. It was good to be with loved ones over the holidays, but even better to be home - there is truly no place like it.

We hope all of you had a blessed Christmas spent celebrating the birth of our Savior and King, Jesus Christ.

Enjoy the pics!



Uncle Michael, Aunt Clare and Uncle Jeremy (all the way from Hawaii) at the Wisconsin Staub home. It was great to see you all - even if it was less than 24 hours! Please come again soon!



Meredith got to experience her first Indiana snow. Grandpa Staub sure loved pulling her around. (Not to mention spoiling the heck out of her while she was there.)



The Staubs on Christmas - minus one. Mom spent Christmas in the hospital. She is better now and we praise God for that! It certainly wasn't the same without you there on Christmas morning!

How can you not love this!?!?!

Trick or Treat

At the Pumpkin Farm!

It's best that Aaron and Meredith are out of the house on Monday afternoons when I teach three hours straight of piano lessons. They always look for something interesting to do (eg, look at the fish at PetSmart, pull all the children's books off the shelves at the library, shop for groceries, etc). A few weeks ago, they went to a pumpkin farm!
All of these "monkeys"! (She gets her consanants confused and often calls pumpkins, "monkeys".)

Apparently at the farm there were more than pumpkins that Mer was interested in.

Meeeeemah! Paaaapah!

Meema: Thank you for the dresses. Here's my favorite one!
Papa: I'm sorry the Twins lost to the Yankees. Maybe the Vikings will make it to the SuperBowl. My daddy says that they will probably play the Colts in February.

Love, Meredith

One of the best things to see...

I think Aaron would agree that among the many, many times that our daughter melts our hearts everyday by saying/doing special things, this ranks around #1. When we go to the basement to do laundry or grab something from the freezer, she stands at the top of the stairs on her tiptoes, yelling, "Mommy, where are you?!" or "Daddy, c'mere!" Who wouldn't want to rush up the stairs to this?

A FLOWER GIRL!

Here's Aunt Holly, Uncle Tim and Meredith last month when they showed up at our house with flowers for Meredith, asking her to be a flower girl in their March 6th wedding! Tim is Mer's godfather and we've always just called him "Uncle Tim". We named his girlfriend "Aunt Holly" as soon as they started dating (which was when Meredith was born) because we knew someday they'd end up married.