Finally home after celebrating and celebrating and celebrating Christmas! What a wonderful time to be with family and catch up, share time and food, laughs and stories. We are super blessed to have so many caring and fun people in our lives to spend all this time with.
Christmas #1 Waking up at home to find that Santa had come right to our house!
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| Sam at the tree with his gifts ("Cheese") |
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| Talking to his Santa... loves that guy! |
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| Sam's 'DDD' from his daddy... skateboarding vid of course! |
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| Ball tent from Santa. Too much fun! |
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| This was the most exciting gift of the season... Sam's very own skateboarder with a skateboard. LOVES it! Thanks to some wonderful neighbours! |
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| Big boy gonchies with Oscar the Grouch on them. |
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| By the look on his face, this car track could have been $700 and still worth the money! |
Christmas #2 Boxing Day at Gramma and Grandpa Kane's
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| Always plenty of fun to be had at Great Grandparents' house. This is the look Sam gives me before he's about to do something dangerous... |
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| AND JUMP!!! That's right, he JUMPED off this recliner. And the stairs. Over and over and over. Every time I had a look of worry on my face, someone (Mom, Aunt, cousins) remind me that this is exactly what we used to do in the den too! I just don't remember any of us only being 1 year old?!?!?! |
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| Cool ball from Great Auntie Bobbi led to a game of catch with Tony. Big Guy (that's the dog's name) is ready to play too! |
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| Annual tradition in my family is to go bowling. The guy opens that alley just for our family and we play a couple games. Always a ton of fun. This is Sam's very first year bowling and he did soooo good. He had his own lane and everything! |
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| "Go, ball, go!" And it did go, very very slowly! |
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| The fam bowling it up! |
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| Sam and his wonderful Godparents. |
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| Sam and his Great Grandparents. |
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| Sam and his Grandparents (my parents) and Kiki (that's what he calls the dog... dog's name is Houston, but Sam might think that he's a kitty. Not sure.) |
Christmas #3 Late morning visit at my sister's house to see my new niece (again) and my brother's kids.
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| Sam loves Baby S. After 4 pictures he did say 'Baby S out', but I know he loves her! |
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| Sam with Creig, Maeg and Serenity! |
Christmas #4 Celebrating with the Connolley crew at Shaun's parents' house
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| Sam feeding Roxy her puppy cookies. If he could do this professionally I think he would! She is soooo sweet with him when he's feeding her. He loves this dog! |
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| Hand shake! |
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| Waiting with Kaili for the snowman on the deck to inflate. Big hit! |
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| Sam with Connolley Christmas tree. |
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| He got his very own Leaptop! |
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| Sam with Kaili, Robyn and Chris. |
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| Sam love love loves Uncle and Kaili. |
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| Getting awfully close to bedtime but always time for one more picture with his Grandparents (Shaun's parents) |
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| Our only family shot this Christmas. |
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| Little Santa! |
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| In the morning, Grandpa hooked Roxy to the sled and she pulled the kids around the yard. If you knew Roxy, this would seem highly dangerous but she did a great great job! Gord kept her on the leash and they ran around and around the loop pulling each of the kids. Keep that up and Roxy and Grandpa will be super skinny by May!!! :) |
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| Sam in the snow with Kaili. Wasn't too sure about the whole situation. |
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| Playing on the snowbank. He had so many layers on that he could barely move! I LOVE the landscape at home... so beautiful! |
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| Ended our Christmas-ing off with one sled ride with Daddy. Though they only made it about 5 feet, I think that was enough for both of them! There's always next year... |
Lots of time with family, a beautiful and healthy baby girl, too much food, many laughs... perfect holiday. How on Earth will we return to reality!?!? I'm officially ready for 2011 and all the adventures it will bring!
