Christmas 2010

We celebrated Christmas Canadian style this year since it was our year to be with my family.  O.J. wasn't home, but the rest of our immediate family was able to be together, even Great Grandma Gamache.  It was a very fun and relaxing holiday, despite Santa delivering 2 new front teeth to Kai for Christmas :)  Thankfully we had grandparents/aunt/uncle/cousins to entertain the wee monster while Bryon and I caught up on some much needed sleep after a not so restful night.

As usual, I wish I'd taken more pictures but here are a few to share...

The grandkids. 

You wouldn't believe how hard we worked to get Kai to even give this much of a smile.  He's definitely not into posed pictures.

We opened presents on Christmas Eve.

Kai thought it was so funny when he'd pull off a tiny piece of paper.  This made for quite the long gift-opening process.

The kids and Bryon and I made a treasure hunt for my mom to find her gift since this is what she always does for us.

She had to solve all kinds of rhyming (thanks to Bryon) riddles, and perform a few tasks such as singing Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer.

Kai danced the whole time that grandma and Emma were singing :)

Christmas PJs, and a new book before bed.

Then the party really got started!  Yes, this is my 64 year old mom and 90 year old grandma playing Wii!!

Stockings and breakfast at grandma and grandpa's on Christmas morning.

Christmas dinner was lovely, with both family and friends there to celebrate.  Kai especially Loved the cherry pie, just like his daddy.

But, he wasn't so much into us forcing him to don the crown from his Christmas cracker (that's a Canadian tradition for all of you Americans!).

Getting ready to ski at Hemlock.  It was a great day until my sister-in-law Jenn hurt her knee badly on one of the runs.  Sad ending to a fun day.

We ended our 5 days in Canada with a combined birthday celebration for my mom and dad.  Their birthdays are just one week apart, and they both turned 64 this year.