Wednesday, January 18, 2012

A tale of three Christmases and a late winter wonderland.

 

For every Christmas festivity you need family, food, and fantabulous presents. Our family got to have all of this repeated three times.

The first tale was a Christmas Eve celebration with Grandma and Grandpa Ripp, Uncle Anthony and Aunt Jennifer, cousin Austin, and cousin Brooklyn and Uncle Ben.

1) For the food, Maranda and I combine foods from both families old traditions and this is what we had.

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The fantabulous gifts.

1) A rock star microphone for our kids to sing into as demonstrated below.

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2) Grandma Ripp’s fantabulous gift was the final Dalmation Mcdonald’s Toy making 101 individual Dalmation’s in her collection.

3) Grandma and Grandpa gave each kid a stocking full of presents.

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4) Aunt Jennifer and Uncle Anthony gave Lilly 3 Disney princess dress up costumes. It was a big hit for both genders.

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5) Taden received a spy kit.

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Thomas got a Thomas ball.

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6) Taden and Lilly made homemade Christmas gifts with Maranda.

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The 2nd tale was spent Christmas Eve and morning as a family with hot chocolate Christmas Eve followed by fantabulous presents from Grandma and Grandpa Miller and parents.

We had hot chocolate Christmas Eve.

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Taden’s most fantabulous present was his Ben Ten Swampfire Costume.

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The third and final tale was spent Christmas Day where we got to see Uncle Karlson, Grandpa Dave, Grandma Laurie, and Aunt Natasha.

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Waking and and walking in a late winter wonderland.

We had our first real snow of the year on our way home from our friends house north of Seattle. (More will follow on that adventure the next blog post.) We were travelling home and went from going 70 to 20 in downtown Seattle where the biggest flurries I have seen in many years came pouring down. Well that was just the beginning.

We only got a few inches but it was enough to make an amazing powdery snow man complete with bow tie.

After our snow man was made the weather people predicted that we would get between 6- 12” overnight. We didn’t think it would happen as it was mostly sunny all day. We woke up to a surprise which is demonstrated below.

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