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Holiday Wrap-Up

Posted in Holidays. on Monday, January 9th, 2012 by Alina

Jan 09

So, I noticed today that I never posted anything about our Christmas/New Years. We had a great Christmas season in the new house this year with the kids. We went over to Warren Farm again this year to get our tree although this time instead of looking for a short fat one like we did last year when we were living in a low ceiling basement apartment. We were able to look for the taller ones they had so that we could place it in our high ceiling front room. The kids had fun decorating especially because they got to climb the ladder to reach the top. We had to remind them that the bottom of the tree needed ornaments too!

We also gathered some extra bows to make a wreath out of. Plus we decorated our outdoor Christmas tree in the yard with some bird seed ornaments and popcorn/cranberry garland as well as some lights. The birds really loved it and so did we in making them.

On Friday the 23rd we took the kids to the Palace Theater in Manchester to a production of A Christmas Carol. But not before stoping at Margaritas downtown for some dinner. It was a fantastic show with great dancing and singing and effects and props. Both the kids and Brian and I really enjoyed ourselves. A great way to start the Christmas weekend.

Image above taken from: Parenting NH

Christmas Eve was a blur of excitement. The kids couldn’t wait for Christmas morning. We baked Santa cookies and even wrote him some notes to leave out for him. We played an epic battle of RISK and then headed to bed to try to catch some sleep before an early morning of fun. Sure enough morning came early, presents were under the tree and stockings were filled. Santa had eaten cookies, drank milk and the carrots were nibbled by the reindeer. He also wrote a note back to the kids and this was very exciting and proof that he really does exist!

Mostly this Christmas I took video footage of the gift opening. However I am not going to post those as no one likes the sound of their own voice! But I did have a couple of photos. Colin got lots of legos including these ones here from Grandma.

He also was excited to get started building his new Kinex Roller Coaster.

Isabelle received lots of great things too. Among them was a sewing machine from Santa! Guess he knew that she always wanted to sew with me! Now we can do it together! And Christmas Day we made our first little project together that turned out great!

I received a beautiful handmade shawl from Ann and love the colors and how delicate it is. Very good work mom!

We were all also very excited about the family gift from Santa. A Kinect for our X-box. This will provide lots of active video gaming fun! No pictures of our silly jumping around in front of the TV though haha. Sorry. When all was said and done it was a great Christmas weekend.

The next weekend for New Years Eve, Brian and I had some really fun plans as well. We travelled to Northampton, Mass for a NYE concert put on by one of our favorites Josh Ritter! Northampton was a fun town to explore so we got there early and did just that.

The first 200 people got this neat poster, of course we were sure to get ourselves one.

The show was AMAZING of course and we really really enjoyed ourselves. He even did a little rendition of Auld Lang Syne for us all. Heard here:

After the show let out at about 11:30 the street right outside of the theater was filling up with people as Northampton has their own Ball Raising to ring in the New Year. About 7,000 or so people were to come out to see it. Brian and I decided not to stay for the excitement however it was a little too much craziness so we caught our cab back to the hotel.