I am having a bit of a hard time saying good-bye to this holiday season. It was all just so wonderful and delicious and sparkly (as evidence of the sparklyness, note the fairy dust in this picture, and yes that is fairy dust, not actual dust).
Highlights
~ The day after Christmas Katie surprised us and came for a sleep-over. We watched White Christmas, played many rounds of "The Enchanted Forest", took a winter hike, and ate left-over Christmas dinner. AND when all the small people went to bed we got to sit and talk and drink wine.
~ So many new toys to play with keeping everyone mostly happy
~ Snow! Finally snow.
~ Grandma Sam took the kids ice skating one day
~ New Year's Eve night was just the five of us as we have done in the past. We played games, and made our New Year's resolutions/wishes with our wish paper like we did last year.
~ Once they were in bed Ryan and I finished watching The Theory of Everything. Soooo good.
~ New Year's Day our good friends came over to sled and snowboard and roast hot dogs. This was our second year doing this- which in combination with the fact that we all had a blast- had us concluding that this is now a tradition. Perhaps with a sleepover next year...
~ The next day Ryan and I embarked on some projects, painting the ceiling me and redoing the hearth Ryan..
~ On our last day of winter break we went out to brunch with my parents and Katie to the Lake Elmo Inn.
~ The best highlight though was realizing that we had a few unused "vacation" days from last fall and so were using them this week to extend our break just a few more days.
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