Saturday, January 03, 2009

Christmas Holidays

We headed North for Christmas...North Carolina. We arrived on Christmas morning and left again at noon on Saturday. Quick, fun trip.
Some of the highlights of the holiday season included:

- gorgeous weather on Christmas Day,
- a competitive game of Bocce Ball with the family
- candle light dinner
- playing card games
- hanging around with no agenda or time schedule
- seeing Leigh Beth again (my nephew's girlfriend)
- playing around with makeup with my nieces
- watching the kids having a blast with their cousins
- shopping with Wilma
- Starbucks runs
- the long trip home, traffic was horrible
- the joy of being with family
- skeet shooting/deer hunting
- eating bear...a cute little black bear
- chocolate letters and dropjes from Oma
- exchanging gifts with Cor and kids
- visit with Bob & Jenette, playing poker to the late hours of the evening
- having Bernie and Patricia over for a night

teaching Asher





being tickled by Caeser...Greg & Corrie's lovebird



I bought Cor the magazine Car & Driver for Christmas...he was pleased to say the least!


Fun Christmas Preparations

kids setting up the tree, the kids decorate the tree this year. I just rearranged some of the ornaments at were hitting the ground :)

so darn cute

making/decorating sugar cookies

Asher decorating the eyes and nose on the gingerbread men

Arianna decorating the buttons

Cor putting in the hardwood
our three cuties