Hirneisen Family Update: December 2014 - Christmas and New Year's

Hello. We began our holiday season with a white Thanksgiving. This gave us the opportunity to get out and play in the snow early....

Andrew and I had the opportunity to attend a Hershey Bears hockey game the night before Thanksgiving with a friend who offered us to come along to use his season seats. They were great seats. The game went into overtime and then Hershey won on penalty shots....a good time....

The snow also allowed us to head to Ski Liberty Thanksgiving weekend. Madi and Andrew took a snowboard lesson and were doing well on the small hill by the end of the afternoon. Abby and I skiied together. It was fairly warm and not crowded so it made for a nice first outing.

Andrew began his middle school basketball season. He is having a good experience and able to get a few shots off...here are a few pics from his first home game in December....

Madi has been playing indoor field hockey with her school team and enjoying it. It was curtailed by Mono diagnosed in mid December. Dad didn't want to feel left out, so contracted it as well....we both expect to be back to full strength to begin the new year.

Abby had her last Christmas program as a pre-schooler. She will be 5 next month and entering Kindergarten next year of course. She was Mary. Here are a few pictures from the pre-program slide show.

Here are some pictures from the program. Abby was not too happy about the hat...but, she did good and it was nice to be there.

We had a great Christmas. We were able to visit with all of our family to include Trevor, Lori, and and Stephanie Overcash from Georgia.

Abby got alot of presents. Hi-lighted by a Barbie House with Van and Yacht, an easy bake oven, and an animated dog.

Andrew's main gifts were a new ipod, some Beats, and a Call of Duty Xbox game.

Madi's gifts were focused around clothes, to include a pair of UGG's.

For New Year's, we did our traditional meal of shrimp and crab legs for New Year's Eve at Grammy's house in Greencastle. My nieces, Madi, and I attended the New Year's Eve on the square in Gettysburg. We finished with lunch with Grandma on New Year's Day.

We got some family pictures this fall. They were delayed in processing a bit, but here are some of the pictures and the Christmas card we made from them.