Christmas Eve at the Beach

We have a family tradition of spending Christmas day at the beach, however the forcast was calling for stormy, rainy weather come Christmas day. Christmas eve however was absolutely beautiful. Not wanting to lose the chance of a beautiful day at the beach we were off to see the ocean. My niece and nephew had a blast and even went in the water up to their knees, guess coming from Quebec their used to the cold?! Anyway we are definetly happy we spent Christmas eve at the beach because Christmas day was cold and raining and spent mostly inside playing cards and listening to music.

Fun with Gingerbread

On the Sunday before Christmas we had some friends over to our home to build gingerbread houses. Owen was so happy to have all his little friends over and was having a great time showing off all his toys. In the end there was quite a bit of icing and candy scadered all around the house but all that matters is that we all had a great time. However, I do think next year we will make gingerbread men instead and simply decorate them, as this is probably something more toddler friendly and also something you can actually eat in the end. Whereas the houses don't usually get eaten which seems pretty wasteful.

After all our friends had gone home my parents arrived and on Tuesday afternoon my sister, neice and nephew arrived who had been vacationing in Las Vegas and so on Christmas eve we got to making some holiday cookies. We made both gingerbread and sugar cookies, we even made a few that had a mixture of a little of each and they were actually my favorite. Owen's favotite was the gingerbread dough so I had to hide that from him so that he wouldn't eat it all. Then for breakfast on Christmas morning he ate two whole gingerbread cookies. Impressive considering he doesn't care much for sweets. More to come later about Christmas day! How did you and your family spend time preparing for Christmas?

lately

Its been awhile since I've posted anything about the little one, so I thought I'd update you all with some pictures of what we've been up to lately. We've been playing under the drizzling of rain and fog, jumping and running in piles of leaves fallen off trees, spending more time indoors cuddled up to stay warm and just enjoying all things this season has to offer us.

What have you and your family been up to this season?