I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

And I got it this year!!!! We woke up to some serious snow. It was so beautiful and peaceful outside. We had a fabulous Christmas with my family this year. We were also lucky enough to have Eric's Mom join us for the Christmas Eve and Christmas festivities. We absolutely loved having her with us. We had Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve and read the story of Christ's birth. As usual, Santa was extra good to everyone this year and T was absolutely spoiled rotten by everyone.

Santa brought Tayeson some of his favorite things in the world. For those of you who know T, I'm sure you can imagine the reaction we got when he saw this train.

Matt and Jen Christmas morning. More on them in a minute.

Santa also managed to find T a watermelon. This was about the only thing he wanted for breakfast.

T has had a blast with his new Viewmaster. This has been great for all of the time we've spent traveling.

Here is the blanket I made for T. I was lucky enough to finish it just in time for Christmas.

Everyone piled on top of each other. We had a great time with our family this year.

Here is the rest of the family. You can see Mom casually ducking out of the picture at the last second, as usual.

Here is one of the trees just over the back fence. It was really snowing. After we finished with presents my Aunt Peggy came over and suggested we all go sledding. We layered on the clothes and headed to a hill just a couple of blocks from my parents' house. We had it all to ourselves and we all had a really great time together.

T and Dad catching some air.

I love the look on his face as he heads straight for the little jump just ahead of him. Despite the look of terror, he had a great time sledding.

He was also really good about hauling his sled back up the hill on his own.

See, I told you he had fun.

We had a great time too. It's been so long since we've seen snow like this.

Here we all are crammed into this tiny sled. Impressive huh?

We made it to the bottom. T didn't want to wait for a picture, he was ready to go again.

Tayeson eventually got tired of walking up the hill and opted for other methods of transportation.

As we got ready to leave my two brothers, Brett and Ryan, and Eric all piled into the same sled to try and catch some air over the jump. Instead they were heavy enough to break it apart.

Here is a shot of everyone at the top of the hill. Thanks for the fun idea Aunt Peg. We all had such a great time.

As you can imagine, at the end of the day T was exhausted. He opted to sleep in the tent that we gave him. In fact, he slept in the tent every night for about a week. Too cute.

T discovering his gifts from Santa Christmas morning.