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Museum of Science and Industry Christmas display
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Well now that it is March and the snow is finally starting to melt, I decided that I should get the Christmas blog updated. It was wonderful to be home in Minnesota so we could spend Christmas with both families this year. It had been years since we were in Minnesota for Christmas! We had a lovely weekend in December at the Pastorius cabin where we made lots of Christmas cookies, opened presents, make ornaments, went sledding and ice skating and celebrated both Marit and Mommy's birthday. Then we flew to Chicago and had a wonderful week in with the Benziger family for Christmas. Mommy had just finished her MPH thesis and felt like she was actually on vacation for the first time in a very long time. We spent a night downtown Chicago at the condo so we could go out to a nice dinner and ate dim sum in Chinatown. We visited the Museum of Science and Industry and wandered through the amazing mirror maze room at least four times, watched the model train go from Chicago to Seattle, saw the baby chicks hatch out of eggs, played on the climbing wall and with the water feature and visited the coal mine. We went to the Kohl's Children's museum and the Chicago Botanic Gardens and saw their holiday model train display and intricate natural cityscape display. Santa found the kids at the Benziger house and they opened presents for the second time. That night the Aurora Benziger family came over and we have family Christmas and opened presents for the third time. We are eager to see where Maya decides to go to college next year. Apparently Macalester is too far north for her but we tried ;) It was a very fun and relaxing trip and look forward to going back again soon! When we returned home, we had more presents to open under our tree. We had finally recovered from all the holiday travel and now it is spring break and spring is on it's way (hopefully)!
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| Theo and his new hot wheels truck from Uncle Dan |
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| Matching coats and Muk Luk booties |
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| New cabin pillows |
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| Putting together uncle Dan's legos |
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| Shoveling the lake to make a skating rink |
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| Evie learning to ice skate |
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| Marit learning to skate |
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| Papa, Marit and Mommy on the ice |
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| Cousins! - Evie, Theo, Marit and Josie |
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| Grandma JoJo, Marit, Papa, Theo and Mommy and Daddy |
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| Family pic |
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| Weber Family pic |
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| Making gingerbread houses |
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| My little elf chefs! |
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| Thomas train at the Chicago Botanic Gardens |
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| More Thomas train (blue) at the Chicago Botanic Gardens |
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| Marit checking out the train bridge |
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| Clock made out of sticks, seeds and nuts |
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| Building replicas of downtown Chicago |
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| Family pic |
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| Seth and Grandma and Grandpa Benziger at the Botanic garden |
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| View from the condo downtown! |
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| Love this view of the river in downtown Chicago! |
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| Marit checking out the view |
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| Watching the trains at Union Station in Chicago |
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| Baby chick born that week |
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| Every tree was decorated with a different country theme - this is the native american tree with canoes! |
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| Rock climbing |
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| Down in the old coal mine at the MSI |
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| Kids water guns at the MSI |
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| Riding an old cable car at the MSI |
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| Hi Daddy! |
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| Theo learning about mathematical proportions and nature |
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| The amazing nature mirror maze at the MSI - we did it like 4 times! |
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| How do you get out of here?! |
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| Rock climbing again |
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| Up, up and then... |
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| Marit fell down! |
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| Lunch in Chinatown for some dim sum |
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| Cheers to dim sum |
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| Hanging out in the downtonw condo |
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| Condo view of the river at night |
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| Hanging out with the Sheehan kids in Deerfield |
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| Opening presents from SANTA! |
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| Wow! Santa must have thought Theo was extra good this year |
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| Grandpa opening his presents |
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| New bear mittens! |
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| Christmas spread of deliciousness - steak tartare, shrimp, pate, cheeses, brie, deviled eggs, fruit, and so much more |
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| Yum yum! |
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| Aurora Benziger's |
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| Deerfield Benziger family (yes those are bear ornaments on Seth's chin) |
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| Playing with cousin Maya |
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| Bye Zachar, Bye Uncle Keith |
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| A quick visit from Uncle Tom |
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| Theo built his new rocket in less than 2 days |
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| ZOOOM! |
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| Eskimo kisses for Grandma Benziger |
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| Saying goodbye to Grandpa Benziger |
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| Hanging out with Leo and Eleanor from Baltimore! |
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| Playing playdoh |
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| New Year's Day party with the Knutsen's and Bramante kids - Endre, Silje, Marit, Eleanor and Leo (Theo refused the be in the picture) |
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| Lego table fun |
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| Puzzle girls |
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| Halo around the moon on a cold January night! |
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