We had a wonderful Christmas this year. It was fun to see Andy really start to understand things this time around and to get excited. Some of the fun things we did included going to the Zoolights at Hogle Zoo (Andy liked the sea lion and the black-footed cat best; that's about all we could see in the dark), taking the whole family to the movies (I love hearing Andy remember it: "We see Check-it Ralph and eat popcorn and drink barkly!", Jonathan slept through it), doing a nativity scene with cousins at Grandma and Grandpa Rees' house, the traditional Christmas morning, of course, and then playing in the snow. It's a good thing we all got some snow things under the tree, because it has snowed more in the past few days than I think it did all last season. All in all we had a great time. It's always over too fast!
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| Hogle Zoo. It was packed, but we still had a good time looking for the animals and enjoying the light displays. |
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| Jonathan got to be the Baby Jesus in the family nativity. |
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| Andy took his time unloading his stocking goodies. |
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| Jonathan checking out his new ornament. |
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| This is his smile. He really is happy. |
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| Andy insisted on wearing his new helmet half the time. And those jelly beans he's dumping out? Yeah. Those were his breakfast. |
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| Showing off his new shovel and snow duds! |
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| Helping Daddy shovel the walk. |
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| Smile, Andy! |
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| This is just under the eave of our front porch. Once he walked out a little ways, the snow was up to Andy's thighs. It was cute to watch him tromp through it! |
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| Tasting the snow. Maybe we should bring out the sno-cone syrup Uncle Tim and Aunt Cami got us... |
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| Jonathan stayed toasty warm by staying inside. Isn't he getting so big?! |
Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas, too!
Oh Heather- your family is so cute. It looks like you all had a great time- thanks for putting the pictures up! Have you ever made snow ice cream? 8 cups fresh clean snow and a can of sweet cond. milk- it's a lot of fun and yummy!
ReplyDeleteCan't say much about snow ice cream, but I can speak for the snow cones. Hope you enjoy. Also, what is "barkly?"
ReplyDeleteLOVED those pictures.. Amazed to see Jonathan grow so big! Andy--naturally cute little boy!
ReplyDeleteI love Andy's "happy" smile! I wish we had some of your snow. It's been super cold here but we only got one of two flakes. :(
ReplyDeleteSorry we didn't get to see you at Christmas this year, but glad it was a good one! P.S. Jonathon looks like a clone of Andy, but maybe that's just me.
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