Merry Christmas 2011

 Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

I want to wish everyone a very special Christmas this year.  We have been enjoying the Holiday season, especially with the wonderful weather we've been having so far! 

So, what has Megan enjoyed the most this year?  It certainly was not seeing Santa at The Home Depot last weekend.  Once she laid one eye on him, she clung on to me harder than she ever has before in her life!  Needless-to-say, I did not get a cute picture of her and Santa to put up on my blog.  I only came home with a picture taken by HD of John on Santa's right knee, me on his left with Megan on my lap!  Even the candy cane that Mrs. Claus gave her was not enough to convince her that Santa was OK.

To Megan the Christmas decorations are alright and for the most part she has left them alone.  When her and I decorated our tree I gave her some older balls to put on the tree.  Well, they were more fun to smash on the hardwood floor than hang on the branches.  She kind of turned decorating the tree into a Greek party - you know, the ones you see in movies where they are all throwing plates on the floor!  Her favorite decoration are the nutcrackers.  We take them off the shelf and then smash our fingers in their mouths!

But, Megan's absolute favorite thing about this season are all the Christmas lights.  We instantly hear "Oh, Wow!" coming from the backseat whenever we drive somewhere at night.  There are several houses in our neighborhood that are decorated nicely so we try to drive by them whenever we come home but she always wants more!  Last Tuesday night we took her to the house in Waconia that looks like it's out of the Griswold's Christmas movie.  You tune your radio to a certain station and the lights go along with the music.  Very cool!  We brought Megan up to the front seat for that show and we probably watched for a good 10-15 minutes.  Very cheap entertainment and worth it to know she is enjoying it so much.

Pictures of Christmas Eve and Christmas soon to come!