Christmas 2004

These Christmas memories remind me that Christmas can be celebrated any time. My in-laws came for a visit between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We stayed at a mountain cabin for a few days. It was the funnest Christmas time! We played games, hiked, and just hung out. The kids loved their pretty ornament night-lights, games, and even flannel sheets that Grandma and Grandpa gave them.

This is just a quick collage I made with Picasa. I had to delete so many good photos just to get it to this point...but it's still too busy for me. Instead of chucking it, I'll just make additional scrap pages for each of the kid's albums. That way I can enlarge some of these  photos on each page. (These pages I made for the holiday album were created before Christmas. Pages I had planned, but didn't get to, will get created next holiday season... when I'm in the mood again.)

I'd love to hear about fun, non-traditional holiday memories you may have!

Christmas 2003

 

This was also Jonas' first Christmas. I will make a real paper and glue scrap page for his book. (This one is for our family Christmas album that I'm working on.) I love how enthralled Jonas was with Grandpa's Christmas train (for his page, I'll zoom in on that photo...I'll also got a few more cute, similar photos that's I'll include on it). I also love how sweet the kids were with each other when they were younger. The get along well now (most of the time); but, needless to say at 11 and 9 years old, they're not quite as affectionate! My brother is in this photo. He lived/lives out of state, so holidays are extra special when he is home!

Christmas Eve 2008

My aunt and parents went to Christmas Eve service with us. We spent the remainder of the evening hanging out at our house with a movie. house.

The boys *hung out* more than the rest of us.

Our dog's name is Joy - how appropriate for the Christmas layouts.