Christmas Fun

We've been having a great time hanging out in MI with Kelly's parents and her brother and his family. Here are some of the things that kept us occupied:

First, Grand Haven has this awesome light display choreographed to music that we went to see. The picture doesn't do it justice. It was really quite impressive.

Grand Haven light display

Nate has been reading a book with Kelly's mom called "Mr. Cookie Baker" so she finally got to play Mr. Cookie Baker with him in real life. They made and decorated some Christmas sugar cookies together.

Nate being Mr. Cookie Baker

We had a couple of quite warm days, so the snow turned into great packing snow. We made a large snowman named Toby. Unfortunately the next day was even warmer and Toby's head melted away.

Nate and Dad with Toby

On Saturday we got to go to Grandma Boonstra's house to celebrate Christmas with Grandma, Uncle Doug, Aunt Cindy, Rachel, and Stacey. We had some good food and had a fun time opening presents.

Nate really enjoyed his new "I Spy" books...

At the end of the night we went over to Uncle Doug and Aunt Cindy's house to see Uncle Doug's impressive train sets. Nate particularly liked blowing the train whistles.

Nate and Uncle Doug watching the train go around

Last night we had Christmas with our family and opened gifts. We are trying this year to not take a lot of pictures of people with their presents since we realized looking back at past Christmas pictures that it is not very exciting. There is a picture though of dapper Dexter all dressed up from going to church.

Jon and his little man Dexter

Today is Christmas Eve. It snowed a good couple of inches last night so everything looks fresh and beautiful again. Just in time to have a white Christmas.