That’s my pond, mostly iced over and having evidence of a visit from the raccoons.

Well, it was a busy week. We were snowed in Saturday to Saturday, and with my mom and brother visiting it was a lot of bodies/noise/activity in the house but a lot of fun. Here’s a collection of pictures from Christmas Eve. Under normal circumstances, we’d have been at my in-laws for a large re-enactment of the Christmas Story, but the snow kept us in for a very pleasant, low-key evening that started with some naps.

There was also some pretend napping

but that didn’t last long.

After dinner, we played Apples to Apples, a really fun party game while watching cars try unsuccessfully to climb the hill in front of our house.

After the kids were nestled, all snug in their beds, Nate and Sam watched Fred Claus in the basement while mom and I made bean bags for my juggling brother for Christmas. It was a last minute idea that came together really well with that fantastic flannel I bought last year.

To top it all off, it seems we were good this year because Santa came.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday/week. I’ve been knitting close to non-stop in an attempt to finish my mom’s Christmas gift. (I’m so close. I’ll post more tomorrow). I’m anxious to get Christmas all wrapped up and cleaned up and posted because I’m SO ready to move on to the new year and conquer!