Christmas & New Year Fun - 2008

The snow didn't stop Santa from making his rounds. He lavished us with great gifts and left the Christmas spirit in our hearts.

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...



Santa was here!!!



Family Time!



Happy New Year!!!




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Sledding Fun in the December Snow

Julie's Excellent Sledding Adventure


Bob's Excellent Sledding Adventure


Kool Kids Sledding


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Snow Storm - December 2008

It snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed... so we missed about 5 holiday events. So we decided to make the best of it!!

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This is day 5 of the snow.


The kids play in the backyard


Austin and I got crazy on the slides


Daisy and I took a night time stroll

This is Day 6

We decide to head of to the sledding hill.


Amanda shows us how it's done.

And now for something you'll really like...

Julie decides to give it a shot.

Monkey see, monkey do...

Bob shows us how it's done.

Austin & Bob...

Snowball fight time.

Let's take a look at our front yard...


Below is a panoramic view of our back yard from our back porch...



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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

From Rice Family Holiday Fun 2008