A Peek at our Holidays

Our Christmas holidays were wonderful, and we managed to squeeze a lot of activities into our time off. Together with celebrating the reason for the season, we have a number of other annual family traditions. We always set out cookies for Santa, and race over to the cookie plate on Christmas morning to check whether Santa visited and ate his treats. Of course, he always does!
One of the girls' favourite gifts this year was a beautiful white satin wedding gown. They love taking turns walking down the aisle, and playing maid of honour on alternate turns. Here Vanessa is the blushing bride, and Alicia plays her best friend, maid of honour and flower girl in one. Notice the rose petals scattered on the floor!

Evan was big into SpongeBob this year, as well as the toy of the moment - Bakugan. His overall favourite gift, though, was our new aquarium. We're lucky enough to have a cousin who works at a pet store that specializes in fish, and his whole family participated in selecting our very first fish tank. The kids were over the moon!
Having a birthday close to the holidays often means taking a back seat to other Christmas activities. My sweet hubby and the kids made certain that didn't happen to me this year. We spent the whole day together; saw The Bee Movie, sang Happy Birthday, and had a wonderful chocolate cookie cheesecake for dessert that night. Who could ask for more? Happy Birthday to me!
We took advantage of all of the extra Family Skate times at this time of year, and went skating a number of times together. The girls are getting better with each skate! Evan, of course, was skating circles around all of us, and loved playing tag and skating backwards. We also managed to get the sled out to the local hill before the warm weather came and melted away all of the snowy fun!

Visiting with family and friends, getting used to our new fish, eating up the gingerbread house, reading (and a touch of homework here and there) and getting the house back in order also kept us busy throughout the holidays. I even fit in a bit of scrapbooking too!


We've had a wonderful visit with my Mom, and will sure miss her when she heads home at the end of the week. I guess like all good things, even great holidays must come to an end!