Kasparek Family Memories

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Home for the Holidays: Swisher Christmas

Butch & Marie were taking off to the Iowa bowl game on Christmas Day, so we decided to celebrate our family Christmas in Swisher after the big Kasparek get together

All the stockings were hung by the fire

Emma, Camden, and Cole

Tim and Camden being Tim and Camden

Digging into their stockings

Having fun opening presents

Singing Christmas carols with Pops

check out Tim in the background on the inversion table

Hanging out with Dad and writing a note to me...

Butch and Jen's Heart & Soul duet

Trying on Marie's old glasses :)

Home for the Holidays: Kasparek Christmas

We were so happy to be a part of our first Kasparek Family Christmas at Uncle Joel & Aunt Nancy's house on Sunday afternoon!

Babi and Bailey

Lori, me, and Jen

Casey, Chris, and Tim

Rose and her sons

Butch, Mike, Mark, and Joel

Mark found a bunch of old childhood videos and made a DVD we all got to enjoy at Christmas. The reactions and laughs were the highlight of the day!

Screen shot of Butch practicing kicking off in the backyard during the fall of 1968

The flower girls from our wedding have grown up!

Maddie, me, Chris, and Macy

Family picture

Grandma Rose with her oldest and youngest grandchildren, Chris & Grace

All the great grandchildren: Calvin, Holden, Bailey, Emma, Rosie, Lily, Cole, and Camden

Silly Kasparek cousins

Grandma's heart was overflowing with joy surrounded by all her grandchildren and great grandchildren

Santa, Mrs. Claus, a reindeer, and some elves came to visit us

Uncle Joel & Aunt Nancy with Santa

Uncle Joel loved giving Camden a hard time. When he was getting his picture taken with Santa, he asked Camden to hold on to his beer. Afterwards, he yelled, "Santa! Camden's drinking a beer!!!" :)

Grandma Rose and Camden

Photo op with Santa's reindeer

Love my sisters-in-laws!

Just Dance-offs

Emma and Tim battle

Tim and Macy battle

Maddie and Chris battle

2 Euchre games going on

I think Chris irritated Uncle Joel

The Chris laugh :)

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Home for the Holidays: Iowa City Part 1

Here we go...FINALLY!!! After over 2 weeks in Iowa, then getting back to Italy and jumping back into school, it is about time I begin updating this blog!

As many of you faithful readers know, we thought it was high time the kids celebrated their first Christmas in Iowa. We took a few extra days off school to get a jumpstart on our vacation. After a long travel day on December 17, we were so happy to be in the great state!

Here are the Kasparek cousins reunited at last

On Friday we walked around the Old Capitol area in Iowa City. I wanted to recreate Camden's infamous picture from July of 2011 when he was oh-so-excited to see the Old Capitol (one of my all time favorite pictures of him!)