Highlights of Christmas

So much has happened over the past week so I am just going to post the hightlights. We have celebrated Christmas with the opening of presents, visits from Santa, lots of good food and way to many desserts.

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This is my attempt to get a Christmas picture of the kids before we opened presents.

The only thing that Olivia told Santa she wanted for Christmas this year was the Cinderella Princess doll. Imagine her excitment when she got all 7 princess dolls!

This is my favorite thing that Caedan got for Christmas. Doesn't he look cool in his fireman coat and boots (with room to grow) that he got from his Uncle and Auntie!

Is there a better way to spend Christmas day??

Happy New Year to everyone!!

Paradise

Today we went skiing and sledding on the hills by our house. What a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon!

Olivia had fun racing Robert down the hill!

Caedan is not a huge fan of the snow yet.

Luckily it is still snowing at our house!

We are hoping for another fun day in the snow tomorrow.

FINALLY.....

it snowed!!!

(Yes Ganik is pulling Olivia down the hill.)

Santa

The Tree is up...

Last Sunday we went with the Johnson and Perry families to get our Christmas tree. We picked out a lovely tree that was not to tall. When we got it home and brought it into our house we realized that we had picked out the bushiest tree in the lot. Hopefully next year someone will remind us of this tree and stop us! It is so large that it is a little difficult to get past the tree when you come in the front door!

We have pictures with Santa...

We then headed off to visit Santa. Caedan was a little unsure about Santa but at least there were not any tears this year!

We decided that it would be a good idea to get all of the kids in a picture with Santa. Thank goodness Santa is very patient and has candy canes!!Olivia then promised Santa that we would make him chocolate chip cookies. So now I am going to have to make chocolate chip cookies on Christmas Eve just for Santa!

Most of our shopping is done. We even have some presents wrapped and under our tree. We are still working on the perfect family Christmas picture so that we can do our Christmas Cards. Hopefully we will get them out before Christmas. We have made several attempts and we are still trying.

Now we just need snow and lots of it!!!