The holiday season always seems to come and go so fast. It can be a bit hectic sometimes, but it is so worth all the memory making in the end. We have a handful of traditions that the kids love to do and this year we added ice skating at the new outdoor ice rink here in town. We made our first visit there with Todd's cute teenage cousins from southern California. I really thought Noah might last 15 minutes and that Daegan would never even get on the ice. I was so wrong. Noah got on the ice like he was born to skate and Daegan got on the ice and didn't want to get off. Daegan's skating required hand holding, but by the 2nd trip to the rink a week later, he was at it on his own, moving 4-6 feet at a time and letting go of the wall.
A very excited boy just before stepping on the ice.
Showing off by lifting one foot.
Some fun cousins to skate with.
The tree decorating photo shoot came out blurry, but it was the fun that counts. This was the first year that I really did not completely rearrange the entire tree after they decorated it. I think I was too busy and subconsciously knew that the dog would be doing some redecorating of her own. There were a lot of ornaments that never made it on the tree and many plastic ones at the bottom that were eaten. It felt like I had a toddler in the house again and I had to keep a lot of things up this year. Our life sized singing santa stayed in the attic as did some of the other at risk decor. Hopefully Suri will be out of her crazy chewing stage by next year.
Cooking decorating, toffee making and gingerbread house building are the candy eating events of the season. For some reason I cannot find one picture of any of the 3 gingerbread houses that they ended up building this year. Usually the kids build a gingerbread house and eat it on Christmas Eve after the Nativity performance with the Poggeman kids. This year the Poggemans were out of town, so the eating happened on New Years Eve, but I must have not taken one photo or they are on a memory card somewhere that was never uploaded onto the computer.
Noah loves to cook and help out in the kitchen.
He was very involved in making all 10 pounds of toffee we produced this year.
Our annual Nativity Play was on hiatus this year becuase more than half of the cast was out of town. We spent a quieter Christmas Eve with my mom and siblings that was just as memorable. My sister Anne and I were able to scan about 300 family slides and put them in an album for my mom for Christmas. It was fun to go through them all and exciting to see how much it meant to her to have new prints made of these old photos. My dad took most of our family photos on slide film until sometime in the early 1980's. As a kid I thought it was kind of strange that we'd watch slides instead of flipping through albums. I am so thankful now that he did that. It has made it so easy to preserve all of these photos for years to come.
This is one of my favorite pictures of my mom and dad in the late 1970's that we found in the slides. I had never seen it before, but I just love their expressions and the outfits!
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