The Fun of it all.

Lauren never seems to get too excited about presents - they are cool and all. Before breakfast, she got to get into her stocking. After breakfast, we opened up the presents under the tree. It was a great Christmas.

I have been dreaming of a white Christmas...

So they predicted only 1 - 3 inches of snow on Christmas and I thing we ended up with close to 8 inches on Christmas Day. It was a good day to stay home and play with all the new toys. Here are a couple of pictures of out front of our house. It was terrible driving to Grandma and Papa O'Connor's house. We just went to visit in the afternoon.

The Reason for the Season - via Linus Van Pelt

Charlie Brown: Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?

Linus Van Pelt: Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about.

Linus Van Pelt: Lights, please.

Linus Van Pelt: "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, 'Fear not: for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.' And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.'"

Linus Van Pelt: That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.

Merry Christmas to everyone. Sending love and wishes to you during this wonderful season!

~Trish, Tom and Lauren

Snowman Watch - Picture 2

I'm melting. I'm melting.

My Ballerina

Here are some artsy pictures I took last night during class.

The Chicken Dance

Dancing to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Last night, parents and grandparents were invited to come and watch the girls perform. They did a couple of songs - such as this one.

Snowman watch!

Lauren and I went out and built two snowmen. We will posting pictures each day this week at the temperatures rise in Denver and the snowmen lower.

A Big Weekend!

On Saturday, Grandma Beth, Lauren and I went to see The Nutcracker at the Colorado Ballet. It was awesome. I loved it. Lauren loved it. Grandma loved it. We got all dressed up and had great seats. Lauren just kept saying when it started "What the..What the...". She was amazed by the sets and dancing. Afterward, we all went to dinner. At dinner, Papa said that "Every little girl should go and see The Nutcracker at least once." I said that "Even big girls should go and see it." I had such a great time.

On Sunday the kids were preforming thier musical for the church. My group of Pre-Schoolers were susposed to get up and say a short verse but most didn't know it. I tried to get a nice picture of all them sitting together but by the time I snapped the picture - this is all I got - a empty stage. Those 3 & 4 years sure domove fast. I couldn't keep them seated at all.

Once they got up on stage, they were the hit.

A visit with Old St. Nick

Preschool has Santa come and visit with the kids. It was nice. He was good Santa. He read Twas the Night Before Christmas to the kids. They were restless.

Lolly was very intent on watching and listening to the story.

She didn't even chicken out. She walked right up there and told him her name and sat on his lap. She was so exicted to go to this last night that at 4:45 p.m. she already had her coat and boots on - the event wasn't until 6:00 p.m. It was really cute. The only problem is that Santa had already decided on what to get her for Christmas so now "she" needs to make another trip to the store.

Letter to Santa

Dear Santa,
I want Luvable Bears, a giant Dora, a Dora tent, a princess table, a notepad , a puppy and that's all. Thank you Santa.

Love, Lauren

P.S. Could I also have some ear muffs?
(This was added just this morning on the way to school)

Christmas message for Grandma Meyer

(It isn't Grandma's birthday!)

Decorating the Christmas Tree

We decided to get a tree. Since we didn't think a real tree would be a good idea with Boggs, we decided to go with a fake one. And it you are going to go fake, fake it all the way. It is really pretty with the glass balls and lights.

Lolly wanted to put the angel on the top of the tree. She really enjoyed decorating everything.

Here is Lolly with the tree.

Grand to be a kid

(Not the greatest pictures)

Parade of Lights

This is the start of our evening in Downtown Denver. We went and had dinner at Dixon's and then walked up to the Parade of Lights. This is one of the best parades of the year. It is cold but well worth it. At this point in the evening, it was probably around 36 degrees. We saw dancers, bands, floats and balloons.

Here is the dancers!

A float.

And of course the balloon. Not sure what he is doing. I think he had a little too much to drink to stay warm before attending the parade.

And this is Lolly's perspective. We acutally got a place on the fence so she was right there to watch but her space kept shrinking. I had to be watching her a lot to make sure no one squished her.

Pumpkin Pies

Here she is...assisting in the making of the Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie. She helped here and there with the baking. She really like helping rolling out the rolls. But she is better at the Christmas Cookies.

Artsy Picture.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Tonight Lolly and I are baking rolls, pumpkin pie and a brownie dessert. I will have Tom get some pictures of the event. We will be going to Jim and Beth's for Thanksgiving. It is a great time but its just not like when I was growing up - lots of people and lots of food.

Miss you - Mom & Dad, Sara, Chip, Quentin, Flash, Jocelyn.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Merry Christmas! (2nd snow of the season)

Today was our second snow of the season. This is a picture outside of work this morning. We had a lot more snow up in Arvada but this is the only picture I got this morning. It was slick driving in. I almost slid through the intersection of Wadsworth and 32nd Street. I was glad that we got an early start. Love the snow!! Wearing my ice skating penguin socks today!

God's Wonders - Part 2

This is outside of our house in the evening.