Christmas with Chad's Side!

Darren and Karlee opening their gifts from us.

Chad was so excited when he got his new grill!

Lots of gifts!

Minute to Win It games!

Our First Christmas!

My attempt at looking awake at 6:15 am! 

Opening his stocking.

Modeling my new mug from Life CC!

I started reading this book on Christmas day and I LOVE it!

Chad's second favorite gift from me.

Chad's favorite gift from me, his new suit!

He had to try it on right away!

Tribute to "Elf Si" with a trash bag full of gifts!

A picture by the tree with our new Christmas jammies!

Then we made breakfast with pancakes in Christmas shapes! (Thank you, pinterest!)

Christmas Eve With the Family

We had Christmas Eve service at Life Community Church, then dinner and gifts at Mom and Dad's house!

I love this picture of Landon just taking in the candlelight service!

Mom and Daddy

Landon praying before dinner.

Emmett's cheesy face!

Buddies

This picture is adorable!

A Wicked Good Time!

As part of our Christmas gifts, we bought tickets to go see the last performance of Wicked before they closed down for the holidays!

It was awesome!

Mizzou Game!

We were able to find cheap tickets for Monday's game so we met Darren and Karlee in Jeff City to go to the Mizzou basketball game vs SC State!

Mizzou won 102-51!

Christmas Baking!

Chad putting up with me asking him to help bake all day!

In progress...

All packed up and ready for giving!

We make a good team!

Christmas: College Student Style!

Minute to win it, white elephant, and board games!

An E-Card!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to our family and friends!

We love and miss you!

Love, The Ruckers

To Branson We Go!

My bosses paid to take everyone to Branson overnight!

Thanks, Lacey for messing up the picture!!

Mel's Hard Luck Diner!

We also went to the show "Six" and went shopping the next day!

Trimming the Tree!

Cutting off a slice of the tree.

Adding the star.

All done!