We enjoyed Christmas with most of the family together for several days. We spent the past couple weeks decorating, shopping, and cooking in preparation for the holidays and everyone had a good time. We have had lots of snow the past few weeks and have been getting lots of use of the snow blower. We finally got a break for Christmas and Friday and Saturday were beautiful sun shiny days.
Christmas morning started with all the kids opening their gifts and then a big brunch. We spent the afternoon visiting and enjoying the day, then had a wonderful roast beef dinner.
On Friday we took Ben to the Homestead resort for a snowboarding lesson and watched him learn how to snowboard on the bunny hill, then eventually on to the chairlift and down the ski run. He caught on fast and now will be looking forward to the next time he can go boarding. Saturday the temperature hit 42 degrees and we had clear blue skies. The kids built a snowman and an igloo and were sledding and playing outdoors most of the day. We ended the day with a hike to Pyramid Point and looked out over Lake Michigan. The sun was setting as we hiked back to the trucks.
Sunday Jenny left for home and then Amy and Mike, and the kds. Later Tom and Evey and us went to Leland and had a nice dinner with the Goodfallows. We also watched the Lions end their season in traditional style, a loss to the Minnesota Vikings.
We are driving down to Southeast Michigan for New Years and are looking forward to spending a few more days with the famly before heading to Florida later in January.
Happy New Year to all and we wish you all well in the coming year.
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| Snow on the deck on Wednesday morning. |
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| The kids on Christmas Eve getting ready for bed. |
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| Christmas morning under the tree! |
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| The opening of the gifts |
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| Christmas is also Ben's biirtday. Nine years old! |
Here is Ben (in blue), on the bunny hill riding the "Magic carpet" to the top.
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| Snowboarding down the big hill later in the morning |
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| At the top of Pyramid Point. Nancy, Kate and Natalie |
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| Tom and Evey |
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| Kate, Natalie and Evey, the snow angels |
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| Mike and Amy |
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