Saturday, December 13, 2008

Breakfast With Santa

We were greeted this morning by a magical, sparkling beauty that extended for miles from the top of our mountain. We were very lucky that the freezing rain did not knock out power and cause too many other problems; we just got the beautiful trees, which sparkled like a forest full of diamonds.


Fortunately, the roads were in good enough shape that we did not have to cancel out on our plans for "Breakfast With Santa" with some good friends of ours!


That look on Colin's face is because he is asking Santa for something that he knows mommy and daddy do not want him to have...a Nintendo DS. It's not that we are opposed to video games in general, we are just not in favor of OWNING any! Fred has too many memories of playing them until he got blisters on his thumbs, instead of doing other things like homework and playing outside in the fresh air. Not sure how to handle this one with Colin...I'd LOVE to hear any suggestions you may have!

Aidan was very excited to tell Santa what's at the top of his wish list! Guess what? Santa already knew what that was...hooray!
On the way home, Fred helped me find some places to park the car so I could take some close-ups of the pretty ice.


I thought these pine needles looked amazing...


And I've never seen an oak leaf coated in ice quite like this one! Pretty cool, huh?


2 comments:

Robin said...

Nice try, Colin...

Just say no to video games!

Michelle said...

He was TOTALLY trying to sneak it past us!