Christmas at Grandma & Grandpa's

The Hoefer family got together on Saturday (12/27) to celebrate Christmas. Although we haven't grown in numbers since last Christmas there was sure a lot more activity with the two youngest now being over 1. We have a tradition of walking down the stairs in chronoligical order. But, Sylvia was asleep when it was time to open our stocking so we postponed the required tradition until she woke up. After stockings (which I must say my family does an amazing job at) we did one round of gift opening (youngest to oldest) before Sylvia's nap ended. Then we headed upstairs so we could take a video of all of us headed downstairs before we continued.

Sylvia loves playing the piano. Unfortunately, ours is still sitting in our garage since we remodeled.


It doesn't look like Carl likes me as much as Sylvia does.


The gift openings begins. She is really getting the hang of this.


Sylvia got a Leap Frog talking, singing worm from Grandma & Grandpa for Christmas and she loves it.






A peek at the cousins...
Evan (7 1/2)

Katie (6)

Margaret (5 1/2)

Ben (3 1/2)

Zander (3)

Carl (16 months) He's the one in the middle opening the gift.

Sylvia (13 months)

I will post some Christmas videos once I figure out how to get them off of the camera and onto the computer. I'm going to need Dan's help for that, and he's been busy studying for his licensing exames recently.