Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Minnesota Christmas and New Year's

It was our year for a Minnesota Christmas. Lots of cousin, grandparents, and snow time! Highlights included a special Christmas-lit sleeping fort in the basement for the grandkids, setting up model trains, snowman building, gingerbread houses, trampolining, ice skating, tubing, sock animal sewing, Christmas light hunting, and of course the cabin. I'll let the pictures say the rest.

We opened some gifts before leaving California. The medieval dragon lego set was a big hit, as were the laser tag set and a new basketball.

It was raining when we arrived in Minnesota, but that didn't stop Justin from building a snowman.

All the cousins enjoyed the trampoline park.

It was hard getting everyone to be still enough for a picture! Carl, Justin, Micah, Brianna, Elissa, and Kaitlyn

Justin finally made a basket!

Micah and Justin assembling a depot for the model train set

Dave the engineer, working hard on the trains


Santa brought everyone mustaches!

Back: me, Dave, Shelley, Jeff
Middle: Justin, Micah, Dad, Mom
Next: Elissa, Eme, Jonathan
Bottom: Kaitlyn, Carl, Brianna

Justin and Carl were fascinated with Justin's new motion snap circuit set
Kaitlyn and me with her newly created snake made from a crazy striped sock

Brianna, Mom, Justin, and Kaitlyn getting set for bed in the basement fort

Kaitlyn with her gingerbread house

Justin, diligently working on assembling his creation

Jonathan helping Brianna with her gingerbread house
Me, Dave, Elissa, Jeff, Kaitlyn, Justin, and Micah at the front entrance to Bentleyville in Duluth
Justin roasting marshmallows at Bentleyville

Time for skating at the cabin!

Elissa, Kaitlyn, Justin having a blast on the lake

Playing pie tag

Justin helped Brianna down the hill and into the cabin

Kaitlyn, Elissa, Brianna, and Justin working on her science experiment

Mom and Dad with the grandkids at the cabin



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