Merry Chirstmas DAY

This year was a Polischuk year so we headed over to Grandpa Ed and Maureen's house after a nap (due to the excitement and early wake up).  Auntie Jenn and Rob were there, as well as Maureen's two sons.  When we came through the door the turkey smell PUMPED US UP  and we got hungry for our third turkey of the season, yummy!!!!!  It was a day of fun and excitement, great gifts were shared.  Grandpa Ed even had tears when he received part of his Christmas gift, it was set to arrive later but it will be worth the wait.

 

The girls got comfy in the dog bed and Amelia enjoyed taking pictures through out the day on her new camera brought from Santa.  I really must devote a whole post to her photos, some are pretty good.

Our big girl has enjoyed the Nativity this year and has been continually dressing up and acting out the Christmas Story. I LOVE IT!!!!!  She took the scarf Auntie Jenn knit me and used it to dress up as Mary.  Stella played baby Jesus and the dog bed, formerly their couch, finally served as the manger. They are pretty creative and it warms my heart to see how much she has focused on this part of Christmas.



 

Love Ed's face here, so thrilled with his gift from Jenn and Rob!!!!!

 

It was hilarious trying to get a picture towards the end of the evening, we really should have done it earlier. Certainly captures the realness of the holiday attitudes!



 

~ Mrs. P

Merry Christmas MORNING

 

 

Christmas Morning started early like it always does...6amish!!!!! Amelia was the first to rise being her chipper self and soon roused everyone else....we were all gathered in our big king bed to be honest so it didn't take long to get us all up and pumped. There is something ABSOLUTELY MAGICAL about children and Christmas. Graham and I even went to bed excited in anticipation of the excitement we hoped to see in our little ladies eyes. It was wonderful! The mess of paper and toys scattered about are worth it (and I am not one for mess or scattered toys).

 

 Each year our women get ornaments from us; Amelia is currently a fan of old school Twetty "I twought I saw a putty cat" and Stella could sometimes double as Oscar the Grouch.

 

Dear me it was a blast and we are blessed!!!

Not a moment of this parenting gig should we take for granted.  I sometimes joke about my little girls with big attitudes but man are they awesome and man are we lucky!

~ Mrs. P



Merry Christmas EVE

Be near me Lord Jesus, I ask thee to stay

Close by me for ever, and love thee I pray.

Bless all the dear children in your tender care,

And fit us for heaven to live with thee there.

~ Lyrics from Away in a Manger

 

There is something so magical about sharing Christmas with children and seeing their excitement, for Santa. It is beautiful to watch them grasp the true reason we celebrate, the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.

We had a very intimate Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, just our little crew of four.  It was special to be able to lay low. Of course we love our extended family but it was neat to kinda do our own thing this year.

  We spent CHIRSTMAS EVE making a few last minute deliveries to neighbors and friends, because we were sick the whole week before everything was just sitting on the kitchen counter and I felt it would be a bit anti-climatic to deliver after hahaha! According to two of my friends Amelia's little buddies loved our 'Merry Christmas and a Happy Root Beer' gifts (we are totally root beer people), awesome!!  Oddly, I hadn't really planned for dinner that night and not surprisingly when we asked the girlies, what to do they request? McDonalds!!!!!!!!!!!!  Yep, so we had Christmas Eve dinner at the Golden Arches.  Fun, more traditional stuff happened after dinner.  The girls each received a video message from Santa, we left a note for him and then finished off the night by reading the Christmas Story from Luke. It was chill and nice, the excitement almost palpable.

Some snapshots of our family at McDonalds ha!

 

 

 

 

Some of my favourite peeps right down here!!!! 

Just our little fam jam on Christmas Eve.

What a wonderful season.

 

 

I tried playing around with my camera this year, clearly I am no pro.  I just wanted to have softer pictures that captured the warm feeling in our home. We are very blessed!!!

 

Bags of books and a bit of loot under the tree. Yeah for Christmas Eve!

 

~ Mrs. P

Merry Christmas GRAND VISITS

 

On the 23rd we did some visiting with our Grandparents, our ladies Great Grands. I just had to include how lucky they are to have this generation in their lives, not everyone does.  My Grandparents are such a source of love and encouragement, as well as a great resource...because after all they have been around for quite a few years :P

It was fun visiting and being with them.  I forgot my camera, so thankful for cell phones and their wicked, awesome technology to take photos.

 

~ Mrs. P



Christmas Celebrations at the Farm

 

We had some early celebrations at the Hinko farm this year.  It was super fun but kinda weird, weird because my Dad had hernia surgery last week so obviously couldn't travel down.  It was super great aside from that fact. The cousins played, the dads talked and we crafted and prepared for the meal with Great-Grandma Hinko.  We went out Saturday and Sunday enjoying every minute of the togetherness and the winter wonderland of the farm.

 

 

This sweet hand holding moment happened ON ITS OWN and I just happened to have my camera out.   My most fav picture of the holidays so far!!!!!!!!!!

 

So the dads looked a lot like the above pic and poor Neely looked a lot like the pic below (she is now on meds for Croup poor girl).

 



One thing on the agenda was tobogganing.  BOTH of my girlies had visited the doctor earlier in the week and were on the mend so we let them go out....ugh!  They enjoyed it however the next day they both skipped church with dad watching movies on the couch because being outside knocked them back down a bit.

 



 

A bit of crafting of course!!!!! Foot print art this year.



 

Cookie Decorating: fun to do and fun to eat!



Polischuk Family 2013

 

Our farm celebrations were over two days. The second day brought some yummy easts!!!!! The coolest thing ever is that we had a deep fried turkey. My Uncle Mark for real deep fried our turkey this year. Super cool and super yummy!

 

 

Deep Fried Turkey

 

Present Opening Yahoo!!



 

~ Mrs. P