A Palmer Christmas

We were lucky to get to spend Christmas in Edmonton this year at Grandma Palmer's! On Christmas Eve Nicole and Terry hosted a wonderful 'Ugly Sweater' Party with a delicious Asian food inspired dinner.

Nicoel had a gingerbread cake for the kids to help decorate. Eloise and Micheal took this task very seriously and as you can see it turned out beautifully.

Christmas Eve PJ's from grandma. So cute!

Christmas morning Elosie loved opening each gift and the asking for 'mores'. She got a new baby, a toolbox and a backpack from Santa.

By the time Elosie woke up at 9:00 Christmas morning Sam was already down for his morning nap so he slept though most of the present opening madness. When he woke up he got to have his very own Christmas and could not have been more pleased.

Here is how we spent most of the rest of the day in our PJ's relaxing.

The Week Before Christmas

Some of our adventures as the big Christmas holiday approached:

We got a new TV (a bit early due to a good pre Christmas sale at Costco) and the best part was and still is the house/store made from the box. This is Sam making his way inside (which annoys Eloise to no end) and me 'buying food' from Eloise through the window. She still asks me a couple times a day "Mom buy food" which means we go downstairs and I buy cookies, pizza, bread etc. and make sure to pay with monies and mores monies. Always fun every time.

As you can see Sam and Eloise had very different reactions to the Santa at Bryce's work Christmas party. Although Eloise talked about 'Santy' for days with found love in her eyes.

Sam stuck in the heating vent once he figured out how to remove the top.

This is an advent that I made for the kids this year. It was a fun project and I spend many hours creating...it was a real hit until the home teachers dropped off an advent that dispensed candy each day...who can beat that!