Sunday, December 14, 2008

Getting Into the Holiday Spirit

The Rice Family is getting ready for the holidays....

We kicked off the holiday season with the annual Edmonds Tree Lighting Ceremony. Click the image below to watch the video feature.


One evening, while driving home from Edmonds, we discovered this wonderful Christmas House. Click the image below to watch the short video clip put to music.


Now it's time for the Rice Home Holiday Transformation...

First order of business is to put up the Christmas lights outside.



Next, the kids put together a Gingerbread House with all the trimmings. To keep the kids from squabbling during the construction, it helps to use some of the frosting to seal their mouths. ;-)



Then it's time to get our Christmas Tree and decorate it. It started to snow as we brought our Christmas tree home.


As night fell on December 14, the snow had made a nice blanket of white fluff and the kids couldn't resist playing in it.


The next morning, it was pretty as a postcard and I captured some photos of our holiday house in the snow.

Looking out my dining room window

Panoramic view from my back porch

Watching the kids play in the back yard from my living room window

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