Christmas Re-cap

As usual the Christmas season was a whorl-wind of parties, family, friends and food. Here is a quick re-cap of how it all went down:

Dec 23rd: Christmas service at Church and Christmas lights drive
Ian danced in the aisles and had a great time as the band played Christmas songs and then went to a play for the kiddos. Afterwards we asked him what the play was about and he said "baby Jesus Happy Birthday " -- amazing! Then we were off for the annual Christmas lights drive. After driving around 1/4 of Loveland enjoying the displays with a keen eye out for Ian's favorites, "the blue ones," we found the best "blue ones" in town...our next door neighbors and neighbors across the street! HA!

Dec 24th: Presents and Bjorland's bash
We opened our presents early b/c we knew we'd be out too late to open them that night and wanted Ian to get the full "effect" of Santa coming Christmas morning. He LOVED all of his presents, and was soooo excited he helped all of us open our gifts! We loaded up the car while he played with his new loot and then headed over to the Bjorlands. Mike chefed away in Sue's kitchen getting ready for his catering gig that night -- a Chipino soup dinner for 13 while Ian and I helped as we could and played with more toys and FINALLY took a nap. That evening was the annual Bjorland Christmas Eve bash which was loads of fun. Ian dressed in his finest tuxedo was ready for the event and could barely handle himself when Santa (who looked a lot like Mike) made an appearence. Ian took Santa's hand and showed him around to EVERYONE at the party, so cute!! Santa had each of the kids and even some of the adults on his lap for one last request. Then Dada re-appeared and played Christmas songs on his guitar for everyone as we gathered to sing Christmas carols. Good times were had by all. (I will hopefully be getting more photos from others which I'll post later!)

Dec 25th: Santa comes for Ian to 3 houses!
Santa brought Ian loads of wonderful toys (most of them were previously Liam tested and approved) which he played with most of the AM. Then it was time to go snowshoeing and, as luck would have it, Ian got a pair of snowshoes for Christmas from the Forces! We had to search pretty hard to find a good patch of snow, but he did awesome in his "new shoes." We can't wait to go again this weekend! Then it was naptime for all and then off to Grandma & Grandpa's where Santa had visited too! Finally, we went to Grandma Donna's for dinner, and of course, Santa had visited again! By this time Jen was starting to feel the flu coming on strong so we left fairly early ready for bed!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!