Our first Christmas and first road trip to IA with 7 week old Chloe started off on Tuesday after work. We drove half way to Kearney, NE and Chloe wasn't that pleased with the hotel but other than that it was an easy drive.

Then we made the rest of the trip to Sioux City on Wednesday. We got to Grandma and Grandpa Kneifl's but first stopped at the hospital to see Grandma at work. We spent the rest of the day sledding, eating home cooking, opening gifts, and going to church.

On Thursday we went sledding, played Wii, spent time at our cousins, Dave and Lauren visited and we enjoyed even more home cooking.

Friday we enjoyed our first annual Fattie competition, look at Tyler's blog for more details on that, played more Wii, our cousins and Great Grandma came over and enjoyed even more home cooking and smoked meat.

It means so much to us to be with our family over the holidays. That was the best present we received.

Saturday morning we headed out to Storm Lake to see the Smith's. Those pictures will be next.