Kicking Off Christmas

Well we are officially on Christmas break in these here parts, and it feels gooooooood.  Cameron had his last day of work on Friday, and doesn't go back until January 2nd.  This is also the first year that we are staying home, and not traveling back to Wyoming for Christmas, so we have been filling our time with lots of Christmas fun.

The kids were looking their finest on Sunday for church, so we decided to grab a few pictures in front of the Christmas tree (one of our kids was feeling particularly "cheese-y..."  I'll give you one guess who.).

Today we were able to head to downtown Minneapolis for the annual holiday display at Macy's.  It was fun, and was much faster than we had anticipated.  We cruised right on through the elf display, and didn't even have to wait to have a visit with ol' Mr. C. himself (by the way, we were only allowed to take 2 pictures with our personal camera.  I took about 10  Do you think that automatically puts me on the naughty list??  :)).

This afternoon we spent a fair amount of time baking and decorating cookies to bring to some of our neighbors.

And this is just the beginning of all the festivities!  With all the time Cameron has off of work, we are hoping to get a few projects done around the house as well, but we will see if we can squeeze those in between all the fun we have planned!