Christmas was pretty low-key this year. We did get festive and go to Stanwood Lights where there were 1.2 million Christmas lights and bitter cold. At least there was warm Kettle corn and cocoa :) We got some pictures as snowmen, since that's the way we felt :)
We did "Christmas" with Bruce's parents on Christmas Eve night so Ryan had Christmas Eve morning with his mom, then opened presents that evening, but then still got to wake up to more presents on Christmas morning! He had a lot of Christmas time over 3 days.
Bruce's parents gave Ryan huge Star Wars Lego sets which Bruce put together, mostly without the help of Ryan. Ryan likes the guys to battle so usually once their heads are on, he's off with the people to fight while Bruce is left to finish the battle ships alone. I think Bruce actually likes it that way.
In the morning Santa brought some more legos, DVDs for the family and GI Joes. Bruce got manly things like cologne and a wallet and lots of candy. I got a beautiful key necklace and Wii Party.
When we were done we headed to Mike & Des's for the Cookie Contest. I was bored at work so I made some trophies. Then I put magnets on the back so we could display them all year :) There were too many cookies, I think I may be cookie'd out. Amazingly, we all won at least one trophy. Was the contest fixed? The boys were the judges so you can never tell.
Picture of Bruce Judging the Cookies
We weren't giving gifts this year - it was supposed to be a cookie exchange. Apparently, no one can help but give gifts.
As always, Des brought life size Santa to celebrate with us. Ryan thought he was cooler than Santa, though:
When we got back home, Bruce went straight to work putting together more legos while Ryan apparently needed some quiet time and willingly (yes! willingly and without notice!) went to his room to read his new Star Wars books that were in his stockings for about 30 minutes! Unprecedented!
It's always sad to see Christmas end. We took down all our Christmas things New Years Eve - it seemed like a good idea. We didn't want Christmas to be over just like that, though, so we headed to Leavenworth for snow, sleigh rides, lights and some great people watching.
On our freezing cold sleigh ride (9 degrees!)in the sunshine :)
Not really sure why, but they had a couple of hoses shooting out water. Maybe it was so that the water could freeze and I could take a neat picture?
There were 3 sleigh rides. These are the horses behind us. It was beautiful.
Cool icy trees around:
Gobble Gobble Gobble!
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