christmas, nusz style.

here are some pics from our christmas.


sometimes they really do appear as if they all love each other.


showin' off the loot.


my mom got me this book....i love it so far! both hilarious and true at the same time.


i am SO GLAD it was not an over-the-range beer cooler!


nathan's beer holster. it will come in handy for lawn mowing, walks around the neighborhood, hell, it'll be handy for ANYTIME.


i LOVE these girls.


AND this baby! my benji.


my mom playing with benji and mater.


BRITT!! what're you doing?!


heidi is thinking of converting to islam.

hope you and yours all had a wonderful, blessed christmas.

thanks for looking!

merry christmas.

it was fun....and i was a *tad* disappointed this morning that it was over.....but *WHEW* did i let out a sigh of relief!


the quiet calm of the morning is shattered. (it was first shattered at 4:30 am, when katie woke up and discovered santa's cookies were gone, and found his note, and excitedly ran into everyone's rooms telling them about it. we convinced her it was still the middle of the night and she had to go back to bed....that lasted til all of 6:30 and i never really fully fell back asleep. ugh.)


sam's santa claus sing-a-ma-jig. it sings "jingle bells". and he sings along with it. *almost* makes up for the toys-r-us-black-friday-debacle-of-2010 that i had to go through to get it :)


a BARBIE make-up collection?! wow! (she must have been practicing her "serious model" face while she was opening it)


austin's iTouch. darn you blasted red-eye!!


this is what i get when i ask sam to "hold up your present so i can see it...." LOL


katie's LPS haul!! that's a whooole lotta pet-pets!


my grandma reading her new book. i thought it was amusing that she got a kid's almanac, but she finds that sort of stuff fascinating i guess :)


my mom and i


heidi, wendy and i. they came over with their families for dinner....it was a full house, but a FUN one!!


wendy and bear


steve and heidi-ho.


nathan and i <3


the boys playing with their electronicals....


even the PIE was happy :)


sam and mr. steve, puttin' back a couple of cold ones together ;)

i hope that your christmas was filled with much fun, laughter, joy and friendship! thanks for looking!

a clear creek christmas.

yesterday we went to clear creek nursery, as we have for the last several years. they have a couple of santa's reindeer there that you can visit, and this year they had a camel as well. inside, they have a "winter wonderland" set up with a cabin and woodland animals, and every hour it "snows" for several minutes.


katie and sam, checkin' out the tree.


SNOW!


a couple of santa's reindeer.


nathan and katie checkin' out moses the camel. and moses checkin' them out right back.


"why, HULLO there, moses!"


merry (almost) christmas everyone! (and thanks to melanie for her photo-editing help!)

thanks for looking!

busy busy.

so after katie and i had our "girls' night" on friday, we came home and went straight to bed, cause we got to get up at the crack o' dawn to go SKIING the next morning! unfortunately, it was one of our COLDEST ski days ever.....it was in the teens and the wind was blowing, and then it decided to snow. brrrrrr. my fingers were frozen and katie was NON-STOP complaining about the cold......BUT it was still a beautiful place to spend the day even if it was less than ideal. we resorted to bribing her with skittles which worked relatively well LOL


taking a break to warm up in the lodge

then when we got home that night one of my very most favorite families in the whole world was waiting there for me :) my friend heidi and her fam moved back to WA.....YAY!


(cue the song "reunited")

and to top off a fabulously full and busy weekend, we had my work christmas party this evening, which the kids always look forward to.


my girl and santa.


sam and santa ♥

thanks for looking!!

merry christmas. and dancer and prancer.

first, merry christmas! it's officially been christmas for 19 minutes now! the stockings are hung (and filled!), turkeys outta the brine and resting in the fridge, santa's been here....and i'm ready to snuggle down for some visions of sugarplums. or something like that.


see?! santa's been here! and he didn't leave my kids lumps of coal, after all!

yesterday we went up to clear creek nursery. every year they have a couple of "santa's reindeer" there. this year was dancer and prancer's turn. they were SO stinkin' cute. i now want a pet reindeer for my backyard :) sam was leary of them at first, but by the time we left he was running up the the enclosure, climbing up on the hay, and hanging on the fence. he threw a fit when we had to *drag* him away.


have you ever seen a cuter, fuzzier face?! and the little tongue poking out! ahh, i am dying of cuteness overload!!


why, hullo there!


"clara" and "fritz" with the nutcrackers, inside the nursery


heeyy, this isn't really bambi....

hope you and yours have a wonderful, magical, terrific, RAWKIN' christmas!!