Christmas

Most of December we took turns being sick. Especially poor Jackson. He was even sick on his birthday. Now we are all finally feeling much better (cross your fingers) and so now I can post about a few things from Christmas and our activities over the last few weeks.
First Santa Clause:





This was our first Santa experience where he wasn't upset and sobbing! Yay for growing up! Santa read to him from his naughty and nice book and even gave him a candy cane.


I even took Jackson to the mall for a little Christmas shopping with my mom, although the only thing he was interested in doing was riding the escalators up and down. But hey! At least he was well behaved.




















We saw lots and lots of lights, including Zoolights, and the Riverwoods, and our very own Christmas tree!!


One of our friends in the ward did 12 days of Christmas to us. Here's Jackson playing with the marshmallow shooters we got on day 7.





Jackson wrote his very own letter to Santa and made him gingerbread cookies. Santa promptly ate the all:)








We went sledding...and speaking of snow, we just keep getting more and more, and it's so freezing, (around 5 degrees to be exact) its not melting!















Here's some photos of Christmas morning! We had a lovely time opening presents, eating orange rolls, and sipping hot tang (since I could barely talk).








We made a few fires to keep us toasty and warm. Trust me when I say it's cold, I mean really cold (right now it's -1).








Icicles are found everywhere in gigantic proportions! But we are all snugly inside our warm house curled up in lots of blankets! That was most of what our December looked like! Comment if you'd like