the 9 days of Christmas....

Our Christmas celebrations started the day after Thanksgiving and will have lasted through the whole month December and into January. We've had a great time. Highlights included the girls dancing in the Nutcracker, sleighrides, many parties (especially at the Peters) and a surprise visit from Santa on Christmas Eve. We also started a new tradition this year of wrapping our living room so that the kids couldn't see into it on Christmas morning.

We're finishing the season off now with our 9 days of Christmas. Shawn has taken the rest of the year off so that his vacation is as long as the girls. In a lovely box on our kitchen table sits 9 envelopes- one for each day of our vacation starting the day after Christmas. Each day we get to do something totally fun as a family. So far we've gone sledding, played games, rented movies and today's activity is a trip to the movies. We've got another 5 great activites planned for the rest of our vacation as well. We hope you are all having a great vacation as well.

update: so we've been sledding, to the movies, played tons of games, rented movies, rented wii games and been to dinner. We still have a couple things to do that I can't say yet........