The Last of 2009...

We bet you all thought that we had fallen off planet earth! Nope :) we have just been extremely busy and have had sooo much going on! Here are the final pic's from 2009...a catch up through the holidays! We hope you all enjoyed spending time with your friends and families, as we did! We look forward to a GREAT 2010 and wish you all LOVE, HEALTH and HAPPINESS!

For Thanksgiving we stayed at home and my mom and I cooked. It was nice to not travel and just be at our house. Of course the boys rode out back...it was a beautiful warm day and we all enjoyed the sunshine! :)

Every ride day has at least one spill...dad always gets them up and going again, after a short "pep talk"! :)


Mati just loves watching the boys ride! She is just completely content with sucking her thumb and watching them go round and round.


We let the kids make their own gingerbread house this year...it was a lot of fun for them! I wasn't sure how it was going to go, with them decorating it all by themselves! They did such a great job. Eating candy along the way helped...I'm sure! ;)' First we gathered all the supplies needed...




The building begins...

Mati even helped decorate one of the gingerbread men...

Gabe with the gingerbread Christmas tree, that he decorated all on his own.

The finished product...it turned out so good! :)


Mati was just dying to touch the gingerbread house...so we let her. She was so cute once it was put in front of her! She was so very careful, as she picked off a candy...it just cracked us up! I thought for sure she would destroy it, if it came within her reach!

Christmas morning the boys were up "bright and early" at 5:45 a.m. YES...it was still dark out! ;)' They were so excited that Santa had come...they were not going back to sleep!

Santa brought the boys a Wii...and also got them each a new game. Ant was so excited to get the Tony Hawk skateboard game for the new Wii...just look at his face!

Gabe got Mario Cart from Santa!

We let Mati sleep in and when she woke up, she opened her presents.

She really liked her new xylophone...

...and her new singing puppy she got on Christmas Eve at Tod's parents house!

In the afternoon we spent some time outside playing with the boys and their new remote control cars they got from Tod's parents.


My mom spent Christmas Day with us...it was so nice to just relax at home in our PJ's all day. We all watched a movie in the afternoon. Gabe took a little nap...he was exhausted from the day!

After the kids were in bed...Tod decided to check out the Wii. He has just as much fun playing it, as the boys do! :)

We think that's all for 2009! It has been a very busy year in The Stiern House. We hope you have enjoyed our family blog and will continue to follow us into 2010!