Merry Christmas

It's hard to believe that Christmas is already over. We spend so much time preparing and running from place to place that when it's finally over it seems rather weird. We had a wonderful day enjoying each other, opening presents, playing in the massive amounts of snow that fell. We feel truly blessed.

Here are Hannah and Ben in their traditional Christmas Eve "new Jammies." This is what we woke up to on Christmas morning. This is why we weren't able to make it to the Christmas Eve services the night before. I was a little sad about that...but I guess safety first.

Benjamin got some new transformers for Christmas as well as a few additions to his Rescue Hero collection. He was very very excited.

As you can tell Hannah was very excited to get her own Karaoke Machine. She has spent so much time performing in her room between then and now...it was clearly the "right" gift.

What better gift for Marc than a light sabre to play with on the Wii. He also got a wonderful new camera that he purchased a few weeks ago.

Here are the kids with Santa???? Looks more like grandpa to me.
We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

After a blizzardy day it was sure nice to be able to enjoy the outdoors. We bundled up and headed outside. Here are a few pictures of the kids playing. They tried to have a snowball fight but the snow is so dry that all they managed to do was blow snow around each other. They had a lot of fun as you can see. Enjoy the pics.

Christmas Musical

We had quite the busy weekend. Between two Children's Christmas Productions and two Family Christmas gatherings we kept ourselves hopping. It was wonderful for the family to be together and some of them even made it to see the kids at church. Our kids did a wonderful job for their performances and what could have been a terribly stressful weekend, turned into a rather nice one. Here are a few pictures. Benjamin was singing his heart out with the Preschool class and Hannah was a soloist in the musical.

Benjamin singing "Go tell it on the mountain."

Hannah on Sunday Morning.

Hannah on Saturday night.

Milk: It does a body good

So today was the day Ben got his cast off. I thought it would be a relatively easy procedure and Ben would be as good as new and he could once again be his independent self. Nope. Ben freaked when they used the saw even though he saw that it couldn't cut his skin. He screamed and it didn't seem to come off very easily so he screamed for a very long time. Then once it was off I figured he would walk (maybe a little wobbly because he wasn't used to it.). Nope. Ben refuses to walk. Perhaps the healing power of milk will come to my rescue as Ben so nicely put "I'll walk after I have some milk because it will strengthen my bones." We can only hope.