christmas 2010

2 hours of screaming and 4 hours of driving later, we finally arrived at our lovely rental house in tahoe. grampa wayne and kiki had already stocked the cupboards with provisions warmed the house. grandma cam and grandpa bill would subsequently attempt a 4 leg cannonball run style blitz across the country on december 24th. alas mother nature conspired against them and they ended up spending christmas eve in a hotel in lovely salt lake city.

the following morning, we witenessed a christmas miracle when we were able to fend off dottie from opening packages until they arrived later that afternoon. she is already on the good list for next year!

once we were all together, we proceeded to have an absolutely lovely christmas together with both sets of grandparents. dottie and esther were in christmas bliss with so much attention....and pink! (grandma cam had the fun idea of making it a pinkalicious christmas this year and we decorated the fake tree with PINK, PINK, PINK!! santa even knew to go with the theme and wrapped everything in pink!).

we went skating, put together puzzles, played candyland, made a pirate-unicorn-snowman, sledded, baked cookies for santa, ate amazing food cooked by chef wayne, snowboarded, watched toy story 3 (with the cast of toy story 3 in doll form as you can see from the photos), got crafty with grandma cam, relaxed, and watched about 2 + ft. of snow fall all in 7 days.

it was an absolutely perfect christmas!

(p.s. esther screamed 2 hours on the way home too. not sure how soon we will be making that drive again!)

to see more pictures from our christmas, click HERE