::christmas eve pt 2::

My Kris was a little bothered that I didn't mention the awful ridiculousness of Max's cheesy picture face.
Well, it does deserve mentioning--though Kris is lucky I'm not making him do a special post of his own on it.
So, a moment of silence wherein you can bask in the horrible squirtyness of Max's picture face:

Oy.

Oy vey.

Urgh.
OK, that's enough for now. But wow, how weird is that goofy smile?

So on to more Christmas Eve.
We went to lunch and it was fun. I always like doing that.
After that we went and got cold weather gear for both Grandma and Sandy.
After that we went home and worked on more cookie making. Sandy wanted to prove that he wasn't 100% miserable and he ate a sugar cookie with no frosting. In a funny way no less.


Now, at this point Max was getting so excited he could hardly handle himself. So Kris sent him out to the courtyard to make a big pile of snow. It kept him pretty busy for an hour or so, surprisingly enough. Though you can't see it, the mound is all of about a foot and a half tall. Impressive, right?

And after that there was some icicle fencing. Even later, there was some sledding on the driveway. That's some pretty memorable great stuff.

After all that fun we headed into town in order to walk down Canyon Road. This is a Santa Fe tradition. There are lots of art gallerys and little fancy shops on that road and they all get fancied up with lights and luminarias. We've never done it before--last year we thought about it but it was so crowded with cars and stuff when we drove by that we decided to forget it.
We went down there early, just as the sun was going down and found a far away parking spot.


Poor Sandy doesn't look too happy, does he? He did ok for most of the walk, but by the end he seemed to be cold, bored, unhappy and super cranky. But before that happened we got to see some fun stuff.

It got more crowded as the light disappeared.

Here's a crazy huge horse head statue for my mom.

There were fires here and there for people to sit by. Some folks were standing around them singing Christmas carols.



More horses--cool flower things too in the background.

Look at that cute dog with lights around his neck.

It got prettier as it got darker too.




So lovely!
At this point we had to turn around and hurry as fast as we could back to the car so Sandy wouldn't melt in despair.
Then we thawed out and hurried home for more fun.
Part three to come..Whew!!

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We went out adventuring yesterday and got ourselves a wild christmas tree from the mountains. We're pretty proud of ourselves.
More photos and story to follow--tomorrow hopefully.
I wish my mom was still here to do the dishes for me, that was way too nice. I'm totally behind now that she's gone!

* Just a Bit of Christmas Fun *

It's been a while since I've put up any fun old pictures, so I thought it was high time to put some up. Here are a couple of christmassy ones.

Here I am with my favorite old car. I'm not sure what year this is, but I think it could easily be either 1990 or 1991. I found this picture on an old roll of film that was rattling around in my stuff in college. I got it developed and found a few great classics.
I totally remember those pants. Very cool at the time, high waisted, pleated and acid washed. That VW we had was the best car ever. Big enough for all of us and all our stuff on trips, and lots of headroom. It was also great the way we had to turn the heater on to get up really big hills in the summer time. I can't remember Dad, did we have to push start this particular van a lot, or was that the older ones?
You can see on my face how excited I am about the christmas tree. I love christmas trees, especially live ones and I always loved picking them out and bringing them home. They just smell so great and look so fun. I miss having a real tree. Sometime soon when we're done with school and all that we'll get to have real trees again!
Next:

Christmas dance at Provo High in 1996. Girl's choice. Oh look at all my friends that I never see anymore. How fun! And isn't that a lovely collection of sweaters? Quite a festive snowflake backgroud too. Amy and I had planned going to the christmas dance together in a group ever since we realized that we had semi-matching sweaters.
Merry christmas to all my old friends! I had such a great time in high school because I had such great friends. I definitely feel lucky.
Later....