Warm

Warm coat: cold winter

Polar Express

We rode the Polar Express to the North Pole on Friday. Hot cocoa, cookies, Santa, cousins, and radiator heat set to at least 90 degrees.

Baker

Nothing says Christmas like a Santa apron, cut-out cookies, and little flour on your chin.

Santa's Wildlife

Yesterday, Addie's school went to the Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary for a carriage ride driven by Santa. We saw horses, buffalo (btw, are buffalo and bison the same thing??), a skunk, elk, and of course, Santa's reindeer!! It was lots of fun. There were hot cocoa, cookies (and best friends) at the end to help us thaw.

Season's Greetings

Wishing everyone a very HAPPY holiday season! This is the "virtual" version of our 2011 card.

Cookies

Today was our second annual cookie exchange, and man the competition was stiff, or was it the drinks?

St. Nick

In the midwest, St. Nick comes the night of December 5th and fills kids' stockings (or shoes?) with goodies. This is news to me, since I'm from the east coast, where we do stockings on Christmas day. We're not one to break
Midwest tradition though, so we left the doors unlocked and the lights on for him (which brings me to another point that Addie brought up: "how do we know St. Nick isn't a girl?!"). Based on what was left in her stocking, I dare say he just might be a girl.