Christmas 2009

Man did we have a wild Christmas!!!

We started the week out with a few Christmas crafts...

We made goodies for the animals to enjoy for Christmas.We made candy cane reindeer.



We went to a few Christmas parties.

But then all of that was forgotten when we woke up on Christmas Eve to THIS...

Can you see Nick? Heading back to the house from breaking up water for the chickens? He then proceeded to milk and take care of the cow for about 2 hours, in THIS weather!! And never complained! He's one tough daddy. It's a good thing we planned a hot chili day!



The makings of a ginormous snow drift...





And all the while THIS was going on, Nick's parents were on their way over for a Christmas Eve lunch, in a full blown prairie white out storm, all on country roads. Miraculously (thank God) they made it safe and sound. Christmas Eve lunch turned into dinner, breakfast and another lunch. There was no gettin' out round these parts. It was fun, and we stayed nice and warm inside and opened presents...

(Felicity is trying to show her Mema what she got)

The kids braved the blizzard, for about 3 minutes...

The next morning, we enjoyed a little time just us in the nook in our room upstairs, sang happy birthday to Jesus and opened up our presents by the sunrise. I didn't realize God's creation at one of its most beautiful moments was photographed during this precious time with my family...

Of course, we took some intentional photos of the sunrise, but the accidental ones took my breath away.

Then after Nick and his dad helped clear the roads, we got to make the trek to my Mom's (Nanna's) house, where we opened up presents by the sun setting over the snow and the lake. What a perfect end to the perfect day, the perfect Christmas day.

But actually, that was only the end to the kids Christmas day, because our Christmas day ended with this...2 years ago Nick and I have would have never thought we would have been milking a dairy cow on Christmas night 2009.