Christmas Dinner w/Brian, Nikiesha, and Parker Richards Hello Holt family members!!
It's been a wonderful Christmas for everyone here in Alaska. We decided to be adventurous and rented a public use cabin and rough it for Christmas. It was gorgeous, and it snowed while we were there. We, and our friends, the Richard family, went down Christmas Eve night, we were a little slow in starting (and stressed). So our timing of events (ie: nativity scene, opening presents) was rather unoriginal. Everything was moved to Christmas Day. Woke up, had omelets, then got the kids playing outside, because they were being naughty in the cabin, and brought back a waist high pine tree. We decorated it with glue/glitter ornaments and popcorn on string. We were very proud of our Christmas Tree. Then the boys went outside again in the snow and we played until Santa came, which he did. All morning we had told the boys that Santa had been watching and hadn't come yet because the boys were being a little naughty. So Santa finally came and boy were there a lot of presents! Then that night we had our "big" Christmas dinner and played a nativity scavenger hunt game (thanks Mom!) the boys loved looking for the presents. Christmas day & night it snowed a lot, so Travis is out plowing right now, afraid he's lost some business. I took some pix to give you an idea of how beautiful it was this morning.
The beautiful winter wonderland
Boys in their Gramma Nancy PJs posing on the top bunk
Cute brothers
Santa Came!! Presents
Our family, our Christmas Tree
The Upper Omer Lake Cabin, I'm standing on the frozen Omer Lake, and to the left is the 1/4 mile trail to the road.
Popcorn on string
Sledding w/the tree
Travis pulled me, Tracker, Trayton, Tustin, Nikiesha, and Parker to the cabin Christmas Eve. We sang "Dashing through the snow in a one daddy open sleigh" It was fun.Love you all, and hope you had a Merry Christmas too. Thanks Jacob, Tiff, Rebekah, Sariah, Joseph, Elizabeth, and Simeon, for the Sunday notebook, and the game of Mancala!
2 comments:
Looks like you guys had tons of fun for Christmas. It looks so beautiful there with all the snow. We miss you guys! Oh, and thanks for our Christmas present. We went on our date last night. It was great!
Nettie, I keep looking at these pictures and I am seriously jealous! If we ever get stationed in Alaska we will have to all go camping together. Jacob thought your Christmas was pretty neat too.
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