Wisconsin Days 6 & 7

Monday Mom & Jeff flew home, so we spent the afternoon with my Dad's side of the family. We went out to the farm and went snowmobiling! Then we went back to Uncle Dave's house for some warm dinner, and a chance to catch up with everyone!
Tuesday we hung around the house went up to Grandad's Bluf to see the view of La Crosse. We also went to the Cheese head store, then did a little wine tasting. We got home and had a great Prime Rib dinner!

Wednesday we headed to Texas.

Wisonsin Days 3 - 5

The day after Christmas we went to Suicide Hill to go sledding! Mom, Jeff, Bill, Steph, Evan and I made the short drive to the hill. Russ was coming down with a cold so he decided to stay warm and get some sleep! We were borrowing my Aunts car for the week which does not have 4-wheel drive so we had to push it in to the parking lot since the area had not been plowed. We got the car in and headed down to the hill. We all had a blast!

After our sledding we headed back to the cars. It was much harder getting my aunt's car out. We pushed and pushed and couldn't get it over the snow bank. A nice guy in a truck was driving by and offered to help pull the car out! I don't know what we would have done without him!Next we were off to visit the Amish. They have stores in their homes where you can buy stuff they have made. We bought a rug, I will have to post a picture later. We went to 3 houses and got a good feel for how they live. 3 houses was more than enough! We stopped at Hideaway a bar in Chaseburg for Fried Portabello Mushrooms, Fried Cheese Curds, and homemade potato chips! YUM!!(Dead Deer hanging outside)

(it was freezing cold and they were outside plowing!)

Friday night we also went down by the river and looked at the Christmas lights.

Saturday morning we woke up early and headed up to Minneapolis. Once we got there we went to the Mall of America! Russ was not too impressed; he thought it was just a little bigger than Valley Fair in San Jose, but it had a theme park in the middle. So if you took out the theme park it would be about the same. I don't think so but whatever! :)After the Mall we checked into our hotel and went to an indoor water park - Water Park of America. We hit the water park from 4pm - 10pm and all had a blast! It wasn't as big as we expected but we had fun!

Sunday we headed back to La Crosse. Once we were back my Aunt Bev took us for a little drive so Russ could see La Crosse. We stopped at the Worlds Largest Six Pack, The Mississippi River, the house my dad grew up in, and the University.

Wisconsin Days 1 & 2 (Christmas Eve & Christmas)

Since we didn't get to my Grandma's house until 4am on Christmas Eve we slept in until about noon. We woke up and Jeff was making calls to find our luggage. All 8 bags showed up about 2pm! We were so happy it all made it and we didn't loose anything!
The family started showing up around 3 and from then on it was a crazy house! Not everyone stayed for dinner since they had to go see their other families; however there were 11 of us there for dinner. For dinner we had crab legs, and a little too much to drink! :)
After dinner everyone left and we opened out stockings from Mom & Jeff and then we opened our presents from Jeff's mom. We got a little silly!
On Christmas Day the entire family came over! We all opened our yearly calendar and hung around talking and relaxing. We had about 20 people for dinner so it was a little chaotic.

(Brothers & Sisters)

(Cousins)

(Grammie with the In-Laws)