Did you have a great holiday season?
Did you feast on turkey and stuffing?
Open presents in pajamas?
Celebrate with friends?
Bite your tongue at your in-laws?
Tell us all about it…
First, we’ll share some shots from our Christmas.
Janice and I both had wonderful celebrations — some apart and some together.
Christmas Eve brought our city (and our entire country of Canada) an extremely WHITE Christmas. My husband, my mom and I decided to cancel any plans that included a car, (we were very sad to miss church – but most churches canceled their services.) Instead we went to our neighbour and good friend Julie’s house. We had such a peaceful evening.
Janice and her family drove their 4×4 truck to her in-laws for presents and a late night French Canadian feast.
My girls woke up at 6:30 am and began unwrapping immediately. We had a very special treat though… we connected through Skype to Rob’s family in Italy and they were able to watch the girls open gifts. It was amazing to share Christmas with them through the webcams. It felt like they were here.
After a very, very late Christmas Eve, Janice’s family slept in and opened more gifts in the late morning. (Just like Janice, her kids can keep ticking into the wee hours — Olivia didn’t go to sleep until they got in the car at 12:30am and Jackson was wide awake until almost 2am!)
Christmas afternoon we got together to open a few more presents and enjoy a fabulous turkey dinner prepared by Janice’s husband.
On Boxing Day, we all headed over to Janice’s neighbour’s house for a party. Due to the snowstorm, many of the other guests weren’t able to make it. But those of us who lived close by had a fabulous time.
(The last three photos here are from that Boxing Day party — including the photos of the girls at the piano and of us with our mom Joan who co-owns our e-commerce stores.)
We truly had a blessed Christmas.
Update:
As we often did in the wonderful early days of blogging, we had included what was called at the time a “Mr. Linky” list where bloggers could add their own links to blog posts they’d published on their own site.
Sadly now most of those links are no longer active, so we have removed the list.
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Oh what I would give to get my girls into christmas dresses again!! I LOVE seeing little girls dressed up in pretty dresses-how sweet!!! You look like you had so much fun!!!
We got some great pictures of our five month old this year!
What wonderful pictures and a beautiful family!
Thanks for letting me participate in your Christmas photo roundup!!
Very expressive pictures! Great to see you had a Merry Christmas 🙂 .
Great pictures! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Your photos are beautiful! What a wonderful Christmas you had!
Everyone has such great christmas pictures, thanks for sharing!
Beautiful pictures and thanks for thinking about the link of pictures. I love looking at everybodys! Happy New Year.
Great pics! You have a beautiful family.
Such great photos! Love the one of the little girl covering her face…too cute! 😉
Great photos especially the one of the 3 at the piano. Everyone looks great!
That last one is especially gorgeous, three generations!
The girl’s dresses are GORGEOUS!!! They look like princesses!!
We used Skype as well to visit with my parents on another continent! Thank goodness for Skype!
Sadly mine are far too blurry to share but it looks like you had a blast!
Cheers
Great pictures! Looks like everyone enjoyed their time with family, and the presents.
What fun pictures! What a beautiful family. And all dressed up! We stick to our jammies all day.
It looks like everyone had a blast!!
Oooo, love the excitement captured on film!
Lovely pics, and great time obviously had by all.
Great pictures! I just love looking at everyone’s Christmas pictures!!
beautiful pictures!!!
What fun you had with your beautiful family!
You have such a beautiful family!
Jackson sure looks excited. It appears that you “hit the jackpot” when it comes to what you selected for him. 🙂
Your pictures are beautiful! I’m so sad that Christmas is over, but what wonderful memories!
My fave photo is of the children at the piano – very heartwarming – i’d have that one framed :o)
What beautiful pictures of your kids! I can’t wait to see everyone’s holiday celebrations. 🙂
Great pictures! Sounds like you all had a great time!