Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas 2009

Christmas morning brought more snow to Maple Grove. We had a nice morning opening the boxes from Santa - which he sent from the "Amazon" instead of the North Pole.
Patrick's toy assembly skills were tested - not too bad though. Toys to highlight are Eleanore's shopping cart with lots of play food, an easel, a dollhouse, a tea set, and a lot of children's CDs.

Mommy got a waffle iron so I made waffles for everyone. Patrick made fire and we snuggled in for most of the day --- well the part of the day that Eleanore didn't ask to go "outside! outside!" Luckily she has warm snow clothes!


Thursday, December 24, 2009

Christmas Eve 2009

Merry Christmas everyone! For the first time, we spent the holidays in Minneapolis. We had a lovely Christmas eve at the Karasti's where Eleanore had fun playing with Taryn, but really enjoyed the sparkly ornaments on their tree.

It was a snowy snowy evening and gave us the first opportunity to see how my new CRV performs in the snow. I love 4x4 - it did not let us down!
The photo below is from our house before we headed over.