November & December (& Jan. 1st) post

Sorry, sorry! I know I've not blogged in a long time. It's been a wicked busy winter so far. Lots of snow, holidays and parties. Nevermind the colds, runny noses and cabin fever.

We didn't seem to get any pictures from Thanksgiving. It was a very nice time. The kids help make really cute napkin holders. Anway, the pictures I do have are from Christmas and New Years.

In December we had a visit from Santa at my aunt's Christmas party. The kids were beside themselves excited. Hey, he looks familiar.....

We made Christmas cookies about 100 times (or lbs.) since it's been so snowy. It's the most snowy Christmas at this point in A year since, blah, blah, blah. Ask John he can tell you all about the weather I tune out after I see the the little sun and snowflakes chart for the week.









Christmas eve












Here we are putting out reindeer food for the reindeer on Christmas eve. Brooke noticed the next day that "the reindeer didn't eat all of the food!"

We had a mix of people on Christmas eve. The picture below shows Kate and Barb (with hats), Kirk and Judy (neighbors) and the back of John Farraher. A few other people came by during the evening. It was a great time!









As always, I never get enough pictures on actual Christmas. We are too busy getting the food out and opening presents. Suffice it to say there were a lot of great gifts, none greater than "Butterscotch pony" who Santa brought for the girls.





















Our tradition on New Years eve is to make our own pizza and ice cream sundaes (setting very healthy eating habits here in the Vallier household). The kids loved it. We were all in bed by 9:30pm which is just fine by me. I'm getting a little holi-dazed at this point.





















Just to make sure that we don't miss anything, John, Kate and I decided we'd do the New Years Day plunge.










It was about 40 degrees out and windy. You can see from the waves in the background that it was blowing pretty hard. Thankfully it was low tide so we didn't have to contend with the slope of the beach.









Can you believe how many people actually did this? It had to be at least 200 if not more.












This would be after.














It was pretty damn cold.












We treated ourselves to a boozy lunch at the Bridgewaye in Humarock after the plunge. It appears a LOT of people did the same thing but the food and drink were fabulous. The kids were absolutely wonderful during the whole thing. Really a great time!