Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to our family and friends!!!  We hope that everyone had a relaxing and low key holiday filled with good food and fun.  Amy is LATE with the blog because she got sucked in to watching the Harry Potter marathon with the family on Saturday and Sunday evenings :)

The kiddos only had two days of school last week and they were both virtual due to a lack of available staff.  The kids LOVED it!  Part of Ayson's (and Addie's) gym assignment was to make 10 snowballs and throw them at something :)  Yes, Ayson is wearing Crocks that no longer fit his big hobbit feet...hahaha...sigh.

Ayson hit the stump :)

On Monday afternoon, we headed to a friends house to go sledding!  Good thing we did as our snow has since disappeared :(  Amy and Addie getting ready to go down the hill.

Ayson's turn on the hill.

Leena wrote a message for Addie AND Leena gave Addie a Christmas gift :)  Thank you, Leena (and Ashley!)

Leena's gift to Addie was a stuffed cat that looks JUST like Thunder :)

Monday evening, Santa came by on his fire truck.  

Our friends left us a gift in our front garden!

A bird feeder!!!!  Thank you, Annie and Bob!!!

A Christmas Eve walk in the rain.  Snow, ice, or rain, the kids love playing outside in piles or puddles:)

The Christmas Eve dinner of choice for the kiddos: McDonalds.

Opening the cards and gifts from Grandpa Roger and Grandma Pat.  Thank you, Grandpa and Grandma!!!

Writing out their letters to Santa.

We left Santa two types of chocolate chip cookies: a hard cookie and a soft cookie:)  He liked both!!!

Christmas morning!

Addie hugging the cat condo that she has wanted (for the cats) for two years.

The cats love it!

Opening our stockings

Day after Christmas hike at Baltimore Woods with lots of rounds of hide and seek :)

A walk in the orchard on Sunday to check out the creek.

And to let the kids dink around

We had to hurry home from our walk so that we could catch the last two movies in the Harry Potter series :)