The Geiger Gang: December

Baby belly at 22 weeks

Zoo lights with Gillian (and family)

The kids were actually very patient waiting in line for the zoo train, it was about an hour wait even though we got there right when they opened!

Finally on the train!

For Christmas this year almost the entire Mitchell side of the family traveled to WI which meant a lot of cousins and somewhat hectic days at times. Here are just a few pictures leading up to and around the holidays.

Making cookies for Santa with mom and Grandpa M.

Learning about licking the beaters!

Getting ready for church...Aunt Beth helping with shoes

Excavator!

Christmas at Aunt Caron's house.

Gianna, Nick, Evan and Mitch. Just one of several attempts to have most or all of the cousins pose together for a picture.

Evan and Mitch weren't shy

Evan, Mitch, Aunt Beth and Gabrielle

Sisters

No husbands or grandparents, but everyone else accounted for:
Kate, Gabrielle, Caron, Gianna, Allison, Nick, Beth, Mitch and Evan

Cold day at the zoo

This pretty much sums up how the vacation was!

Chuck E. Cheese--Mitch's first time there. He really enjoyed air hockey and the helicopter!

Grandma (as usual) is a genius at ski-ball, winning 200-some tickets. We pooled all our winnings together to let all the kids get cheap plastic toys of their choosing!

A little bit of down time after the pizza place

Mitch borrowed some of Gianna's pj's for bed that night (don't worry, she actually had her own to wear).

Hugs!

Mitch really liked this singing cat trio that Grandma M had so we took some pics to remember it.

Evan pretty much entertained all the kids with this toy; there are mechanical bugs that jitter around in the tracks.

So after 6 days in Wisconsin we flew to Colorado to visit Aunt Sheryl, Uncle Ron, Evan and Annie. Grandma and Grandpa G met us there too and we had another Christmas celebration!

The Geiger side of the family has a tradition of making a cookie Christmas tree. Here they are rolling out the dough and using the cookie cutters.

We didn't have any snow actually fall in either location while we were there, but in CO there was a little bit left on the ground. Grandma, Annie, Evan and Mitch went out to play and build snowmen.