Sunday, December 25, 2011

'Tis the season!

I hope each one had a lovely Christmas!  Here are some random photos from our holiday and earlier this month.
Dane's Christmas concert at school 3 weeks ago.  (Red sweater vest, front row, 5th from the right.)

The city of Alexandria is always so beautiful along its old downtown at Christmas.


Homemade garland.

More homemade garland.

Matching her baby, dress, tights and hat!

The closest we came to a white Christmas was this frost earlier in the week.
Teddy warmed up in the kitchen one evening last week.


Dane feeds the reindeer with the mix his teacher sent home.  Pretty cute!

My parents and Ben & Jen came for a couple of days.  On Christmas eve, we hitched up and went for a hayride over to visit Mike's parents.  I love how Dane is upside down!

Along the way, we stopped to play on the ice.

Dane likes to practice his rodeo skills on the sleds!

Daddy and Nora get a tow.



Just one of many gifts, Nora loves her pink and purple guitar!

Kids in their Christmas PJ's checking their stockings this morning.  Notice Nora's nightgown matches her baby's!  The kids opened their new jammies yesterday around noon and finally took them off almost 24 hours later!



It was such a beautiful day (no snow, 40+ degrees) that I went out for an afternoon run.


Dane and Daddy even played croquet in the beautiful Christmas Day weather!

1 comment:

G,V,T & T said...

It's been ages since I loaded any pictures up or checked out yours - always great to see all your beautiful pictures and gorgeous kids! I will have to send you a picture of Trelise - she also has the matching tights and dress from American Girl like Nora. I couldn't resist when I visited Chicago last September and remembered how much fun Trin had with her matching doll and dress.