Christmas Jig

Arden and Cal decided to have a Christmas dance-off, Celtic style! It was quite entertaining!



Riverdance has nothing on these guys:



Side note: Christmas virus hit the high road, thank you computer geeks!

For Daddy!

We love you!!!! Merry Christmas!

This is Arden's new favorite book, Thomas the Train, no surprise there!



This was the first set of trains, the joy kept on coming!



Arden took a brief break from playing with his bounty of new trains to play puppet!



Merry Christmas my love!

Merry Merry Christmas

I borrowed a computer to say Merry Christmas!! (I got a Christmas virus on my desktop-bah humbug hackers!) Here's the fam on Christmas Eve, after church and before we ran to see the Christmas firetruck parade! Arden loved Christmas morning, I could barely get the trains away in time for a nap!
We both had Christmas jammies!
I've got video for Papa Anders, but the Christmas virus might eat my video camera if I attempt that level of festivity. Sorry Sweetheart, it's coming soon!!

Happy Holidays everyone!!

Christmas Train

Everyone headed down to Key West last night to go on a special Christmas Conch Train tour to see the lights of Key West and listen to some carols. It was great! Arden loved the train, he didn't want to get off!And Cousin Calvin loved the Christmas music, every time a song changed he'd say "more" and point to the speakers.
Here's Duval Street, the main drag. Calvin was waving to all the people.
Here's everybody! What a fun way to visit Key West!

Cousins and Parties- Yay Holiday!

Time off is a beautiful thing. Especially when it's the holidays and you get to have your family all around. It sure makes the time without Papa Anders a little easier. Speaking of Anders, he's started work and made progress in our house hunt, so he's a busy guy! We sure miss him!

The cousins continued their bonding yesterday with story time:And super fun park time!
Look at that cutie pie, such pinch-able cheekers:
Today Arden and I got to go to the playgroup Christmas party and eat tons of goodies. The party reminded me that it's been almost exactly a year since I found the playgroup and I am so thankful for each one of these great mommies, such a fun group!
We're headed to Key West tonight for a Conch Train Christmas ride! WooHoo! I heart vacation!

Cousin Love

Arden and Calvin are having a great time getting reacquainted! They share a lot of common interests. For instance, turtle riding:Camera cheesin:

Playing with new toys:
And looking for Grandfolk:
It's so fun to see them be old enough to really play and interact! What a fun week we have ahead!

Christmas House Fun

We've been decorating the Christmas house and exploring. First we had to get the advent calendar up:
Grandma Betty found a cutie pie calendar that Arden loved helping set up.
His favorite day was the snowman, anything with a snowman is his favorite right now.
Then we decided to explore outside:
There's tons of stairs and places for him to look around, he loved it:
And with a little adult supervision he even got to venture onto the dock:
Hopefully it will warm up a touch and we can try out the pool.
At this point we'll be happy, pool or no pool, if Tom, Tina, and Calvin can get out of Northeast! So. much. snow. Here's hoping for a Christmas miracle!