Leif's Family Christmas

We spent New Year's with all of Leif's family plus my brother and Leif's cousin. We all had so much fun!

This cutie with his favourite fashion accessory - goggles!

We managed to complete three and a half puzzles while we were there!

This one was one of downtown Calgary which was really neat to do.

All four of our nieces and nephews!

The boys in their matching Sunday best.

Look at those gorgeous eyes!

So pleased to be jumping around.

Looking good while on dishes duty. #single

We went to the squash courts one evening. I got killed by all the crazy good guys.

Bonding with his littlest nephew.

The boys built a snow jump over seven snowmen. I don't think they actually attempted the jump though!

Oh the creative minds of little ones.

Sleeping beauty on my lap. Missing my baby snuggles immensely!

Laura's Family Christmas

For my whole life, we've always gone to the mountains (or somewhere far away) for the holidays with my family - except this year! The bookings got all mixed up so we went to my parents' house instead. To be honest, it didn't really feel like Christmas! To keep up with tradition, we did take a family picture though. Can you tell what our accidental colour scheme was?! It totally wasn't planned... until we made my brother and sister go change to match!

As our Christmas present to each other, we bought this bluetooth sound player that will connect to our phones or computers wirelessly. Bring on the country tunes!

This was Christmas Eve fun after a delicious dinner. Games, tea, and chips!

We did a secret santa gift exchange with each family. My mom got my name and she made me some special blueberry jam with honey and bought this 3D puzzle! I got Leif a Stuart McLean Vinyl Cafe package of CDs and a box of really good golf balls for the summer! :)

Leif Turns OLD (AKA 30)

In December Leif had his 30th birthday! He hates big parties so we just had two little family celebrations. On his actual birthday, we went over to his sister's house for supper and cake.

 They gave him a hat to match our nephew!

We celebrated again just before Christmas with my family.

He loved this part of my present for him. If you have not seen the YouTube video yet, search "poo pourri commercial" and watch it! It's hilarious! And this stuff works! ;)

Fun Day with the Kids

My work has a kids Christmas party every year and we always miss out because we don't have kids. This year it was at the new science centre and we borrowed our cute niece and nephew for the day so we could go! Yes. This is how it worked. See how excited they are? Times that by ten for how pumped I was to check it out!

Rolling things down the hill.

Making a wish letter.

My tower numero uno.

The three of my fellow geeks playing in the water.

Painting with light.

My tower number two. Sweet cantilever!

To finish off the day we took these two to the pet store to help us pick out fish for our new fish tank!

These were their favourite (Nemo fish!) but we don't have a saltwater tank so they had to settle for a Nemo tank ornament.

December Instagram

The temperature on our drive home tonight. #notcool #wishiwasbackinhawaii

I made this presentation at work today and I think it went really well! :) #sogladitsdone

We went to the Telus Spark science centre with these two cuties today. #somuchfun!

Expressions of wonder at flying things. #lovethesetwo

All ready for the holidays! Bring on the games and goodies! #merrychristmas

Happy New Year! #brothersister #christmascrackercrowns