Christmas 2009 (Part 1)

If there was a theme song to our Christmas season this year, it was most definitely this one:

We were warned the storm was coming, so on Christmas Eve we packed up our station wagon, with Christmas gifts, suitcases (enough for being snowed-in for Christmas with my family plus 7 days with Thang's family), food, snow gear...no room for the kitchen sink. It was a good thing we left home prepared not to return as the blizzard hit full-force that night and all Christmas Day. After Thang and my dad went on a mission to rescue my sister's family from their snowed-in neighborhood, we were able to spend all of Christmas Day jammie-clad, my whole family under my parent's roof. It was a fun day of being together and slowing down, letting the kids play, working a puzzle, sipping hot tea and watching the snow pile up outside. Some pics...

Nora in her Christmas finest.

Nora with her cousins Teagan and Ruby....yes, the kids made out pretty good this Christmas!

Nora's got a new pair of shoes!

Nora enjoying her very special rocking horse from Oma and Opa.

My sis and brother-in-law in front of the drift that blocked their neighborhood. Yikes!