Holiday Week

Walking under the lights

 Opening presents with Mandy's folks

All the grands together for lunch:

Playing board games with one of the cousins

  And, finally, Christmas morning arrives.  Santa emptied most of his plate, drank all of his milk, and left some things in the stockings.  

We look through our stockings first, and see what Santa left for us.  Then, we had breakfast of cinnamon and caramel rolls.  

Finally, we opened the gifts under the tree.  

Sometime around lunch, the ice began to fall and coat the trees.  It looked like we would have a glazed Christmas.

And then, just after the sun set, the snow began to fall

and fall

and fall.

This is the beauty we woke to December 26:

 Playing in Christmas snow is a bit magical, don't you think?