Christmas festivities started out this year with a pit stop in East Moline and you know the usual... Brian doing emails at 6am in his underwear with Grandpas Iowa coat. Classy

Next Stop- Dubuque, Iowa. .. where we would spend the next 3 days. Christmas eve, Day and the day after Christmas. If the Hamilton family didn't contribute to the downed economy this year, I dont know who did.


Chad, showing off his "fireman" shirt. Is he a fireman, um no not really. Don't ask me why he has this shirt.

Gingerbread house making with Grandma.

Grandpa and Chad in the Kitchen cooking Christmas dinner.

Christmas morning- the the big hit from Santa this year was a 2011 barbie camper. However Chad and Bridget thought it to be appropriate to give the girls the "1978 version " that had been sitting in the shed.

Showing the new weight set.

Bridge and I received our annual replenishment of Victoria secret undies....

Oh the weather outside was not very frightful so the boys decided to "tarp" the hill in the back of chads house in hopes of making things slick. Not so much.