Christmas Day

We got up early on Christmas morning and drove down to Edmonds to celebrate Christmas with my family. We had a beautiful drive down on this white Christmas morning. It wasn't snow it was frost, but it was still pretty. We had such a great couple of days with family playing Settlers, Nertz and watching movies. I didn't take a lot of pictures, but here are a few. Okay so this pic wasn't at Dina's house, but this is Allison in her new snow outfit, gloves and hat. Isn't she a cutie?

Christmas with the Cousins

This year we got together with Fred, Trina and the boys on Christmas eve for a yummy dinner of roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy and biscuits. It was very impromtu but Trina came through with a pecan pie and apple pie. We had a great time eating, opening gifts and playing Settlers.

I bought Trina a gift card but decided to wrap it in a box and put a whole bunch of garbage like end of the roll wrapping paper tubes and an empty hotel size botel of whiskey to make the box seem like something was in it. We knew she would get a kick out of that!

Allison got a new kitchen and has lots of fun playing with it. She especially like the egg that came with it.

Christmas Eve

Since we were going to Dina's house for Christmas we decided to open our gifts on Christmas Eve morning. We bought the kids a Wii this year and wanted to give them a chance to play it before we left.

This is them opening up the "big" gift. They were so excited to get a Wii this year and we have had such a great time playing all the new games together!

Visit From Santa

The big debate has been on this year as to whether or not Santa exists. Collin was so sure that he didn't, but between the neighbor girl and the boys the debate was getting pretty serious. We were going to be having Christmas on Christmas eve so the problem was getting Santa to come to our house the night before Christmas Eve. So that day the boys sent an email (I love technology) to Santa letting him know they needed him to come a day early. We made cookies and left them on a plate along with a note from each of the boys. The next morning they got up and were so excited to see that the cookies had been eaten and SANTA HAD LEFT A NOTE!!! The look on their faces says it all!

Christmas Program

December 20th was our church Christmas program. The kids did a great job. Brian sang 2 songs and said a memory verse then they got to dress up as Angels and run around the church while the choir sang Angels we have heard on high. It was very cute. Collin got to sing with all the big kids. They sang several songs and did a very nice job. Then there was a drama that went from the birth of Christ all the way to his death on the cross set to a song. It was very powerful!

First Snow of the Year

In December we had our first snow of the season. Allison couldn't wait to get out into the snow and of course Collin and Brian were very pleased to find out school was 2 hours late. They had lots of fun playing in the snow before having to go to school.

Halloween

I know what you are thinking. Halloween? It's almost the new year. I know, I know I am once again playing catch up. Just enjoy the pics and be glad that I finally got them posted. We had a ladybug, Spiderman, and a Seahawk this year for Halloween. We went trick or treating around the neighborhood and then went to our church for a fair. Lots of fun was had by all. Allison really got into the whole candy thing. Here she is with her best friend, Hannah.