Christmas Break Fun! (Part One)

December 26 - Recover from all the Christmas fun and stay home and play with toys!!

December 27 - Science Centre

We had such a fun family day at the Science Centre.  We played lots, had lunch and saw an IMAX movie.  "Under the Sea" wasn't my favourite IMAX movie, it was okay, but what was cool, was reading the credits.  My Dad's cousin Maribeth Solomon and her musical partner Mickey Erbe did the music.  The girls really had such a blast.  And I totally lost my cell phone in a snow bank and then someone turned it in!  YAY!  On the way home we went to dinner at the Pickle Barrel.  FUN DAY!

December 28 - Ten Years
What to say about our 10th anniversary.  Part of me feels like this should be a separate post., nah! Mushy time ahead! (You were warned.) I love my husband so much.  I feel like such a lucky/blessed woman everyday.  I am so in love with Ken and love him SO much.  I love our life together.  He is such a great Dad and such an amazing husband.  Happy 10th Anniversary my love!

To celebrate the day we went for a quick dinner to a Thai place in Orangeville while Makenna (Antoinette's oldest daughter) watched Kate and Alice.

December 29 - Laura and Joaquin babysat while Ken and I went to the Hobbit!  YAY!

December 30 - Visiting with the Turners (and the Wilson Clan)
Rebecca and I have been friends since she came home from her mission.  She and my brother Jon served in the same mission in the south of France.  We became instant friends.  After she and Nathan married the went to Korea for a year, and when they came home they were in Toronto for a little while and then they moved to the Montreal area. Fast forward many years and children, it has become increasingly more difficult to see each other.  This marked our first visit since Alice - Rebecca hadn't met Alice.  Kate and Simeon were still babies - CRAZY.  It was lovely to visit with her and her family - her whole big extended family.  Trying to get a picture of all the kids was only partially successful.  They wouldn't all smile at the same time and they took turns picking their noses, the cute stinkers!  Hopefully it won't be another two years before our next visit.

December 31 - A quiet New Year's Eve

Having a nap from 10:30 - 11:30 made it possible to say Happy New Year at midnight!  Goodbye 2012, hello 2013!

Christmas

We had a really fun, wonderful, lovely day!  I think I sort of feel like letting the pictures speak for themselves...

I must say this though, thank you Ken.  Thank you for making a wonderful Christmas dinner and dessert and for enjoying yourself doing it!  You are a wonderful husband, father, son-in-law, brother-in-law and chef.  Merry Christmas everyone!