Klassen's Christmas

This year we celebrated Christmas on Boxing Day with my side of the family. Melissa gravitated towards the tree loaded with presents as soon as we arrived!

Present opening was a blast... here Melissa just received a lava lamp from her cousins...

Matching puppies for Melissa & Lexi...

Xander and his Hex Bug from Melissa...

Melissa received a renewed subscription for Chickadee magazine from Uncle Dan & Aunt Nikki. She looks forward to it arriving every month throughout the year...

Sitting down for our delicious family dinner...

Christmas Day at the Thomas' '10

This year we celebrated on Christmas day with Ken's family. It wasn't more than a minute after we arrived that Melissa was eagerly sitting with the presents ready to unwrap.

Pop received an original piece of art for hanging in his newly finished "man cave". The picture is of him in his Metropolitan Nash car while Melissa looks on...

Melissa hardly took much pause between present opening...

Zhu Zhu pets!

Helping Nana...

Daddy got to help dress her new Lalaloopsy doll...

Later in the afternoon the rest of the family arrived, GG (Great Grandma) is given a cookie mix that Melissa made for a gift...

Cousin Katie & GD (Great Granddad) get a Lalaloopsy demonstration...

Christmas at our place '10

Christmas morning finally arrived. Melissa awoke to full stockings on the mantle and a great increase in presents under the tree!

A cheer for the additional presents!!!

Pepper & Crash go to town opening up their catnip Christmas toy...

Silly bands...

A happy dance for a new Wii game - Kirby's Epic Yarn!

And a much wanted Lalaloopsy Doll...

Such a joy it was watching Melissa open her presents!

We quickly got cleaned up and ready to go to Nana & Pop's for the Thomas' Christmas :)

Disney On Ice

Earlier this month we went to the Disney on Ice show.

Waiting for the show to start!

Some original Disney characters came out to welcome us to the show...

The story progresses and each princess takes their turn dancing in a song with their prince charming...

The classic Disney characters were used throughout the show...

Tinkerbell (one of Melissa's favorites) appeared in one or two of the larger group dances...

An appearance from the characters of Toy Story...

One of the last songs, which had lots of the characters in it...

Melissa thoroughly enjoyed the show!

Mini Christmas Tree 2010

Christmas tradition for Melissa is posing with our 3' Christmas tree. Certainly shows her growth progress :)

Here is last year's blog entry, along with the links to previous years.