Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning

Waiting for church to start.

Singing carols.

Birthday cake for Jesus.

Super excited right before bed!

5 am Christmas day!

Christmas Tree Cutting 2010

No snow this year! We had fun playing in the woods and eating a picnic.

Parade of Lights 2010

We went to the parade of lights in downtown Denver this weekend.

Rudolph's handlers lost control of him, and he almost landed on us!

We were very close, and got a good view of Santa.

Uncle Jason bought the kids light up thingies ( he's the best!) After the parade the older kids had a fun hotel night downtown.

The hotel had breakfast with Santa in the morning...

With an elf and a real reindeer!

The hotel had some great decorations.

Advent Festival 2010

Making Graham Cracker Nativities

The Kids decorated our Advent Wreath

There was cookies and hot cider...

and a huge train room, and live music and performing dogs!

Outtake from Christmas card picture taking session

Thanksgiving with the Cousins, Thanksgiving Play, and T-day Road Trip

We had a nice early Thanksgiving with the Tices.

Matt did a great job as a narrator in his classroom play- he remembered all his lines.

Matt right before we left on our road trip to Santa Fe.

Matt and Claire in the living room of our suite.

Matt outside St Francis Cathedral, which is 400 years old.

Thanksgiving feast in Santa Fe.

We went to the tree lighting on the Plaza.

We stayed in a really nice suite- this was the 3 seasons room.

Three little donkeys...

First Snow of the Year