Christmas 2008

Here are some pictures of Mason and Ellie on Christmas.

We acted out the Nativity. Cousin Cade was Baby Jesus, Cousin Chloe was the angel, Cousin Claire was Mary and Mason was Joseph. 

I love Ellie's crazy morning hair.

Playing with dinosaurs.

Ellie loves her new "Elma" doll.

Mason's reaction to only seeing the box of the present. He was pretty excited!

Once there was a snowman...

We finally had enough wet snow to build a snowman. Mason has been wanting to build one since he first saw snow this year. He was very pleased with the result and decided to name him "Jonasty." I have no idea where that name came from. 

Mason's New Hobby

Mason has discovered the PhotoBooth program on our computer. Basically, it's a program that takes your picture, but you can choose different effects to enhance the pictures. Mason refers to this as "color faces." I've watched him sit at the computer on numerous occasions and take hundreds of pictures of himself. However, it wasn't until tonight that I actually looked back at all the pictures he's taken and realized how funny they were. I thought I'd share a few. His faces are quite expressive.

First Snow Day

Technically, this wasn't the first snowfall of the season. When the real first snow came, we were out of town. So for our family, this was our first opportunity to go out and play with it. Mason was dressed immediately and out the door playing. He started shoveling the snow and throwing it up in the air. This was his choice of activity the entire time we were outside. It took Ellie about 15 minutes of watching Mason before she decided it was safe to go walk in the snow herself. This was Ellie's first experience with snow. Once she ventured out, she enjoyed walking around in it, but she didn't like how the snow stuck to her boots. Every time there was snow accumulated on the tips of her toes, she made me knock it off. 

Ellie pointing out the snow on her boot for me to knock it off.
Mason having a great time!
Ellie realizing snow is kind of fun!
Throwing snow.