Early in the month the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train was cruising through the country, and we couldn't pass up that opportunity. Wesley loved it after we were back in the warm van watching videos of it coming up. It was cold that day even though the rest of the month was like summer. It also passed through Minot.
Legos are a very popular toy around this place. Sometimes one of the kids disappears during the day, which is suspicious since they are usually climbing and clinging all over her and whining. This is where Amanda finds them when they sneak off, where they can pull off all the hats and hair.
Amanda found a neato use for the boxes our Christmas presents came in.
It must get boring sitting around the house all day long all week long.
Wesley is very good at making faces.
There was some thingie where a couple dudes with model trains set them up at the garden so they could charge kids to watch them drive around. Wesley loved that too, if you can believe it.
Amanda organized a big gingerbread house extravaganza and even made the houses herself. It was lots of work and then only one person showed up. Oh well. Wesley said he had fun.
Here are the stockings all ready for Christmas courtesy of Grandma Heit.
This is how we spent Christmas Eve: at the office! How sad is that?
We also smidged over to the lights in the park. Wesley spotted this one before we were even in the park.
Christmas morning after Santa's visit! Too bad everyone was sick so they just sat there until 3 PM. That's even later than when we were growing up and our parents just hid in their bedroom for ages.
Eventually some stockings got opened. Look at all the Christmas excitement going on.
Mommy got lots of presents! She wasn't very excited either. In fact, she didn't even seem to have a clue what her presents were until after nearly all of them were opened. She still managed to build it all by herself though, so now she's excited. One of the first things going on was Railworks 3, courtesy of Uncle Randy. It's the best game ever!
Here is something for Reed to watch.
Wesley got a train table just like at the library! Hi wow and sto mon hun!
This picture pretty much sums up the Christmas prezzies. Be grateful kids because you're not getting another one like this, heh heh heh.
Too flesh out our Lego city, Amanda made a McDonald's.
And a library. Isn't it awesome?
This is what things quickly devolved to.
Here's Kate showing off her Christmas present for Mommy. Kairi can do it too but only Kate prefers it over crawling these days.
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