Monday, January 05, 2009

our holiday

I finally bought a keyboard for the laptop, so I can type more now.
I was hating the laptop keyboard, especially since it was missing a few buttons, one being often used shift button.
Lets see.
We had a great holiday. It was a fairly white christmas, for the first time.













We loved it.
We played in the snow soo much, and did tons of sledding. It was exhausting.


One day Kilynn hit a jump just right and caught massive air. But she let go of the sled and got scared...she ended with with a pretty bad scrape under her chin.
But it didn't take long before she was back on the sled, though avoiding the jump this time. LOL.


We made cookies and goodies for some neighbors/friends of ours.
We made gingerbread houses, saw Santa Clause, and Kilynn got to go see the Nutcracker again, this time with a friend and Grammy.


















Our Christmas was nice. On Christmas Eve, we have my family over to my house. It's simple, I made chili. We just hang out, play games, and play a gift game we all enjoy alot. It can get brutal, but is good fun!





Christmas morning is spent at home, we had a nice mellow morning. The kids checked out their stocking and goodies from santa (including an xbox, honeybee tree game, and ice skates).
Then we had breakfast, my mom made donuts like I remember my grandfather making often.
Then we continued to open the rest of the gifts. Luckily, though the kids were of course spoiled, it wasn't as bad as years past. I really tried to not go overboard with gifts from us as well. I just love giving, but we really just couldn't afford it this year.
Christmas night, we have a traditional dinner at my dads house. It was fun too.

It was a great holiday, we are blessed to spend it with those we love!
Here's a link to all of our photos from December- Christmas, Snow, etc.

2 comments:

Mandy said...

Sounds like you had a Merry Christmas!
Glad you enjoyed your snow. We have a ton, but it's too cold to play in it (seriously - 11 degree's is too cold to be outside.)
LOVE that top picture of Kiley!

Jonara Blu Maui said...

Sorry Kiley got hurt...I'm sure she will get the hang of it next time..how exhilerating..I'd love to do that again!

Was the gift game white elephant? I LOVE that game. We play it at our babyshowers here all the time. it CAN get brutal!

Did Lucas get some axe cologne or somethign? lol! Better keep those little girls away from him! As if he's not handsome enough! haha!