Christmas 2010

Christmas has always been my favorite time of year, and having little kids around makes it that much more special.

Granddad Cone works for BNSF Railway and every year, Santa comes to visit the Depot. Amber and I took the kids to see Santa (and to let Granddad show them off). The kids really liked the cookies and playing with the other kids, but weren't so fond of Santa...they all three cried when they went to sit on his lap...oh well maybe next year. (Granddad...Amber...I guess I don't have any pictures from Santa's lap...do either of you have them?)

The kids really got into the hang of opening presents this year. Madison really had it figured out. There were so many presents for the kids that they were kind of overwhelmed at first, but gradually they opened enough presents that they stopped fighting over the toys they opened.


Since the lens to our nice Cannon camera is broken, Amber and Brad bought me a small point and shoot camera. The kids loved being able to look at the pictures right away. The quality of the pictures is not quite as good, but it is sure better than no camera at all. Thanks Guys!








I am noticing now that I failed to get pictures of the time we spent with my family. Grandpa Jerry and Grandma Linda came up this year and we had a great time with the "Wade Clan". We had Christmas dinner over at my mom's house on Christmas Eve and then enjoyed games and smoked pork loin and ribs on Christmas Day. Christmas night was spent playing Kinect on the X-Box and learning how to play Bones...a domino game that Chuck taught us all.

New Years Eve was a blustery cold night with lots of snow. So friends of ours, Tony and Elizabeth, came over along with Jenni for Bar room Olympics...it was a lot of fun to welcome in the 2011 with friends and family.

Overall, we had a fantastic holiday and loved every minute of our two week vacation from school. It was sure hard to leave those girls Monday morning!

I guess that is all for 2010...Blessings to all for 2011.