Christmas 2008

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Our Christmas was a lot of fun and tasty food, and our New Years eve was a quiet one spent at home watching movies and blogging.

We started getting Pippa and William hyped up about the idea of Christmas for the last month, with Advent calendars, Christmas trees and decorations and the special Christmas WordWorld and Super Why! They knew something fun was up.

On Christmas eve William was especially tired, so he needed to go to bed extra early leaving Pippa to prepare for the arrival of Santa. He did, however, get to enjoy opening and playing with all the gifts the next day! Here are some photos from our very white snowy Christmas...

We decorated the cookies and left them out for Santa with a little Whiskey

An Eden tradition, reading "The Night Before Christmas" the night before Christmas

After Santa came, but before the kids woke up

William checking out some gifts

The aftermath

Then there was the snow to deal with...

8" or so on Christmas eve, on top of the other 8". Lots of shoveling for Nick to do!

Making snow angels

Coming to throw snow at Will behind the sliding glass door. He gets too cold and miserable in that much snow.

Oh, Christmas Tree

This post is a little delayed, however I had to show you where we got our Christmas tree. It was a really fun day and Pippa still talks about it nearly 3 weeks later! In Oregon in November and December you can go buy a permit for $5 which allows you to go into the Deschutes forest, select a tree shorter than 12 feet, cut it down and take it home. This is what we did. It was so much fun, and not only did we get a $5 tree out of it, but it was a very impressionable fun day out for Pippa. Our tree is 9' high and the freshest tree we've ever had. Pippa is very proud of it, and surprisingly they are both very good at not knocking it down. Here are the photos from our day out...

Auntie Jess carried Will, Pippa was strapped to Daddy's back (she wanted to be carried, and it was best because of the uneven ground), and I got the backpack with the saw. We went with our friends, the Johnsons.

Jess carrying William

Pippa helping Daddy with the chop

The tree is ours now. Muwhhhh, ha, ha!

Tying the tree to the car for the 30 minute drive home

The tree is up. Notice how all the ornaments are higher than a toddlers reach?