December 20, 2008 - Hager Christmas 2008

As is tradition, the Hager family celebrated Christmas together the Saturday before Christmas. It seems to work well this way, as no one has other commitments that day and come ready for our traditional feast of ham, Christmas Bread, and mom's infamous Pretzel Dessert - a hit for many.

After dinner, we opened gifts from Grandma and Grandpa. Everyone had a lot of fun and enjoyed their gifts as well as each other's company.

Dec 6-7, 2008 Winter and Holiday Fun
I decided to take a break from re-living our summer time memories to post a few more current, festive and timely adventures of the season. I figure there will be plenty of blah, cold days this winter when remembering summer activities will be a welcome escape.

Here are some pictures of the kids playing in the snow, decorating the Van Wesep Christmas Tree and our attempts at getting some good Christmas Portraits. Put it this way - the picture below is the best "group" picture we were able to get. To put it bluntly - you won't be seeing a group picture on our Christmas Card this year.

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See Sam Sit! ....OR NOT!
August 15 and 20, 2008

Sam kept stealing Allison's saucer chair and making her quite angry. He apparently liked having "a seat of his own". So, I thought I would bring up Nicholas' old rocking chair. (This rocking chair used to be his cousin Micah's and maybe even a generation before that and was recovered by his Grandpa and Grandma Van Wesep and given to Nicholas as a gift when he was younger.) Initially, Sam thought this was great as he loves to "rock, rock". Well, apparently this old rocking chair is not equipped to handle Sam's rocking as you can see below.



A couple of days later, I went to get something out of the freezer and Sam refused to let me close the door. This is why.... he needed a place to sit to drink his juice. The desire to drink his juice in the freezer lasted for about a week, before he moved onto something else.