Christmas 2011

Happy New Year everyone! We had a really great Christmas this year - the kids were super excited about everything and there were no meltdowns over presents! Best Christmas ever. ;) There are a million photos, as usual, many of which could have used some editing and more extensive commentary, but to be honest, it seems like a lot of effort and I would just like to get these all up here before Easter, haha! The whole family has been pretty sick for the last while and work is a bit nuts for me at the moment, so this is what you get! Really it's probably not all that different from most of my other posts. Sorry about that. Heh heh.

Christmas concerts! Here is Graye's:






And Tegan's:





Christmas morning - Graye got EXACTLY what he asked for from Santa... pretty lucky!

Tegan in her princess finery:




Once again, Dollarama provides the best Christmas gift of the season:

We went to my parents' place on Christmas afternoon, and got to see Great Grandma.



We took a picture of us at my parents' place outside, to illustrate what an odd winter it has been so far - no snow at Christmas!!

We went to Ryan's parents' on boxing day, to celebrate with his side of the family. Here are the Andersen cousins, so far. (Next year there will be one more - congrats Kristen and Chris!)

Gifts from Aunty Kristen and Uncle Chris - thank you, everyone loved them!!



Tegan demonstrating how well her twirly skirt twirls:

Some photos of my daily activities - doing Tegan's hair:

And colouring - usually I start with a kid and end up on my own. Usually.

Thanks to Maizie and Ella for the lovely aprons they made. They've already been put to good use.

This is what our family does on Ukrainian Christmas - sword fights!!


Tegan isn't that excited about Ukrainian Christmas activities... maybe we should have got her a sword too.



Hope everyone's 2012 is an amazing year - lots of love from all of us! xo