Dad's girls...

My Dad for many Christmas' now, has given the GIRLS jewelry/diamonds. I don't know how this tradition got started, but we have quite the collection now. We are Dad's Girls, and we LOVE IT! Now even Lauren gets Diamonds!

Christmas Eve with The Hazlett's

Presents...one of the fun parts of Christmas! Boy did we have tons of them. We started with Christmas eve at our house. My parents, Todd's Mom, and my brother, sister-in-law and kids were all there. We had a soup supper, and lots of yummy food. There were tons of presents to open, and Nick soon tired of it. A big hit was the Tonka truck from Gma and Gpa Clipper. I gave Todd a new pool cue, which he said, "I'm not a good enough player to have this nice of cue!"

Santa...not so much...

So, we made our annual trip to the mall yesterday to visit Santa. I have been doing this with my nephew and niece since they were born, so they met us there. Curt, Valerie and Dori joined Todd and I and the 3 kids. I kind of worried that Nick wouldn't like Santa. He can be kind of skittish when it comes to new people. But, I thought that if I had Colton hold him, he would be okay. So, we had to wait in line, probably about 40 minutes or so, but Nick did really good (it helps when the kids are there to entertain him - he also enjoyed riding the carousel!) He even sat on the floor and watched the other kids sit on Santa's lap. We are doing good - this will be fine, I thought.

Well, when it was our turn, Colton was holding him and as they walked up, they got about 2 feet from Santa, and that was all it took. Tears and sobbing and clinging and trying to get away! So, snap snap, the pics are done...and here they are....Oh well, maybe next year!

Last but not least...

What an exciting and fun-filled family day...we went out to supper together, and then did a little shopping. And Daddy had the wonderful idea to buy a movie he has been wanting. So, we bought Polar Express. Nick is totally into "choo-choo's" right now, so how appropriate. Although Pickle didn't make it thru the whole movie, we enjoyed relaxing by the fire together.

Not so much snow fun...

And all fun must eventually come to an end I suppose....Daddy accidentally got to going too fast (he felt really bad by the way), and over he went....Nick did not like falling off the sled.

SNOW MUCH FUN

Nick gets to experience his first fun in the snow, and Daddy and I get to remember our youth too! The video's are too long to list, but if you look close enough at the pics, you can almost hear him laughing!!

What is this white stuff??

Our first real SNOW of the year....almost 4 inches when we woke up this a.m. Nick hasn't gotten to play in the snow yet, as he was too little last year. So, we found some snow boots and a sled today. When we got ready to leave the house (after our pictures at Sears, as you can't go out and play in your dress clothes!), we put on the boots. He thought these were pretty cool. He was stomping around the house.

Then it was time to go outside....he didn't know quite what to think. He stomped around a little bit, but with snow that deep, it's hard to walk. So pretty soon, we fell, and hey, guess what??? Snow tastes pretty good (white...not yellow!).