The Ziegler Family: Happy Holidays!

We hope everyone had a very happy holiday! Ryan and I had a lot of running around to do. On Christmas Eve, Ryan had to work during the day. His uncle sent him home at 3:00, which was awesome! He came home, and we went to spend Christmas Eve with my mom's side of the family. The next morning, we woke Andrew up at 7:00 to open gifts before we hurried off to my parents' house for breakfast. Andrew was spoiled there, but then we had to scurry off to Ryan's parents' house for lunch and to open gifts. Then we concluded our evening at the Knolls' house with Ryan's mom's side of the family. Phew! Andrew finally got to play with his gifts today.

Here we are posing for our 2008 Ziegler Family Christmas picture. Our family got a little bigger this year with both Leonardo and Aveya joining us.

Here is the nicest picture we have of the four of us so far.

Here I am with Aveya who passed out after pictures.

This here is why I think Andrew needs to get into martial arts.....he will need to defend himself on the playground.

Aveya was my best gift of 2008.

Friends home for the holidays! Patrick took pictures, a pregnant-with-twins Kristin tried to stay awake after her last day of work before the holidays, Geoffrey showed us his Etch-a-Sketch abilities, and Betsy and I mothered our daughters- Katelyn and Aveya. Ryan took the pictures- which is why he isn't in any of them.

Here's Evan and Andrew playing PS2.

Finally, a picture of just Ryan and me on Christmas Eve.

Christmas morning with my babies. Andrew was too excited to pose.

"Rock and Roll, Baby! Yeah, yeah!" as taught to him by Ms. Lucy. He wants to play Guitar Hero with daddy just like Alex and Uncle Ben do!

Aveya can never tell us that we never bought her a pony to ride.

Cheesing it up over his new laptop. It's much better than his "monkey computer". Now maybe mommy can finally have a computer that is free of Andrew Slime.