Holidays 2009

M with one of his favorite gifts from this year: Transformers Devastator! It's definitely a boy thing.The way to G's heart is through some Bionicles. He loves them!

If you look carefully and can discern the different shades of white, you can see the fort on the left and the arch on the right. So much fun!

S playing cookie keep away with Grandma Joni. Everyone loves Aunt Suzie's sugar cookies!

C hanging with Papa Wayne eating a sugar cookie. The sugar intake yesterday was most impressive as was the crash that followed. Yikes!

It's not over yet for us but we've had a lot of fun so far. We had about 12 inches of snow from the 23rd through the 25th and on the 24th, it was the good, sticky, good-for-building kind. So...we built a fort and an arch. The arch went over the 14 foot slide in the backyard and then the boys took their ice sleds and went down the slide, through the arch and then through the fort. So cool. The 25th was half rain and half snow so our creations of the previous day were collapsed for the most part and are now frozen but the boys are dreaming of the impending re-build! We did end up having to cancel our trip to my Grandma's house due to the weather but had fun tucking in with my sister and brother-in-law on Christmas Eve followed by a relaxing Christmas Day where we got up, did stockings, had french toast for breakfast and then did gifts after that. Later in the day, we went to Tim's mom's house and celebrated there for a few days. It was lovely.

After a very busy week of baking and preparing, it's been really nice to have some great down-time with the family and we're looking forward to yet another week of it. Love it! We don't plan to get back to school until the 2nd week in January and my rule of thumb is that our decorations have to be down before we go back to school so we'll be working on that next week and then will make our grand entrance back into reality. ((sigh)) Such is life! I do feel truly blessed to have such great flexibility in our schedule. It makes for far less stress, much more time to enjoy and more time to do the things we want to do. Life is good. Above are a few pics from our past few days.