Christmas...late or early?

Didn't I promise pictures from Christmas last month? Well now that we're approaching Valentine's day I'll just consider myself early for next year. In the mean time here are some pictures of our winter time days:) We got just under a foot of snow last week, but those pictures haven't been down-loaded yet. Oh, and exciting news before we scroll down through the photos...we're leaving for Colorado in 3 days. We're doing ski-in-ski-out at Winter Park; it's become our favorite ski resort. Dane's going to take lessons and Drake will hang back at the condo with Heidi.

Reindeer made out of little hands and feet; check-out Dane's hat!


Zoo lights and dinner with Santa and his crew...more characters than I can name visited us during dinner.








Drakie cleaning; notice the goggles, they're from his garagae tool kit!


enjoying hot cocoa and admiring our gingerbread house and marshmellow family. And now Dane is wearing his goggles from his tool kit. There for a while Dane wore them EVERYWHERE, including church, but God doesn't care, so we don't either *smile*


Grooming T-Bone. He's such a good dog; look how thrilled he is NOT.


chowing down on candy necklaces they made. 1st time I ever saw that kit before. It was loads of fun and they still ask to make them (mostly so they can eat the candy)


Bike riding; it's not just for warm, sunny days anymore!


Baby Jesus' birthday cake. I bought special icing so we could out-line the cake and make the train features stand-out...bad idea, it tasted horrible. After the picture, I iced the whole thing over with chocolate icing, just the way my 3 boys like it. Santa enjoyed it too.