Christmas!!

Christmas was spent with The Erickson side.  It was fun to be there for Christmas. Lydia was six month since the last time we had been over there for Christmas.

Lydia and Eli had a hoot of a time.  Eli came home and would pray for James for about a week. The kids got to play in the snow, eat Grandma's great cinnamon rolls.

Lydia did all she could to find dress up clothes at Grandma's.  This dress actually came home with us.  It was mine when I was little.

Eli sporting the cowboy gun and cowboy hat that he found at Grandma's house.

Getting a horsey ride from Grandpa.

Oh the snow

We need to get a keyboard for Lydia.  She love to pretend to play the piano. 

Lydia and Eli built a carriage.  She was pretending she was a fairy good mother.

Snow Angels

Lydia opening an early present from Grandma.  New black Sunday shoes.

This was a Christmas Eve activity.  Everyone built a huge two room fort with stairs.

After the fort was built we went sledding.

Ah the love of sledding

Christmas Morning

 On Christmas morning Lydia and Eli came down and were so excited to see their stick horses.  If that is all that they had got then they would have been completely happy.

The second thing that Eli as most excited for was his candy.  He pulled it out of his stocking and exclaimed, "Oh my goodness!"

James got a Nerf gun and bullets for the Nerf wars that happen at the house.

Lydia gave Eli a sword and Eli gave Lydia a basket.  It was cute to watch them exchange gifts. She also helped me wrap some gifts. She was more excited to give the gifts we had wrapped for my mom than to open the gifts with her name on it. 

And don't forget mom's wonderful cinnamon rolls.