Merry Christmas Early! December 22 - 24

This picture sent to me from June next door. Definitely a snowy looking Christmas.

Early Thursday morning I woke up to the sound of glass breaking??? I put my slippers on and wandered around the main floor but did not find anything? Later on I went upstairs to turn on the heat pump in the guestroom Jason's parents would be staying in and found that the inner pane of glass in the window by the bed and broken! That is what I heard. Fortunately there still is protection from the elements with the outside pane of glass intact. I guess the -15C temps we are definitely not used to, caused the glass to break with the temperature difference. 

All is ready! The gifts are wrapped, the stockings hung, the house "babyfied" now just waiting for Jason, Kristi and Amelia and Jason's parents to arrive today for our "Christmas Eve". 

Jason, Kristi and Amelia arrived at 10 am and Jason's parents not until 2 pm. Apparently the roads were terrible getting out of Victoria with all of the snow still on the roads. Fortunately Highway 1 is good all the way here. Once Jason arrived, he and Ray went and bought a piece of rigid insulation to fill the window frame. That will have to do until Jason gets someone here to measure out a new window or pane? Apparently windows have a 3 month lag time right now. 

I also had a new mattress delivered today for our guest bed upstairs as Kristi complained how uncomfortable it is when she stayed a week ago lol A Christmas miracle that I managed to get one from Sleep Country and have it delivered 3 days later where they carried it upstairs and took the old one away. Bonus!

What a lovely time visiting. It took Amelia a little time to warm up to her Granny and Pop pop as she's not seen them for a month or so. By after dinner she's running around talking to all of us.

Mixing eggs for her breakfast.

Before the unwrapping. lol

Everyone had a restless night except Ray lol. Out of bed at 6 am. Amazingly Dale, Jason's step-dad was up by 7:30, unheard of. lol We had our coffee and opened stockings. Then Santa came!

Who is that guy with my mommy.

Here is the video we took. New computer so no editing ... sorry :)

A travelling french press for our coffee connoisseur.

Amelia's painted Merry Christmas from daycare for her parents. Too cute.

Gift opening actually took 6 hours as Amelia could only do so much and tired of it. We opened her gifts before breakfast, after breakfast, after her nap and after dinner lol  A long day for the little tyke. Her favourite gifts are the dump truck and floor mop and of course she got a tablet from Santa to use in the car travelling.

Dale and Nadine cooked breakfast. With so many hands, I'm very fortunate to have a fabulous kitchen cleanup crew, so I didn't have to wash a dish with all the cooking I did :) I kept Amelia occupied while the crew did the cleanup.

Our Christmas Dinner consisted of Prime Rib done on the barbeque rotisserie. It turned out fabulous. Best one yet I'm told. :)

Before dinner we took our annual Christmas Picture.

Ray, Deb, Nadine, Amelia with Jason, Kristi and Dale

A wonderful Christmas for all. The next morning, the 24th, Nadine and Dale headed out by 11 am as the monsoon rains began and they were worried about flooded roads getting home to Victoria. Kristi and Jason spent most of the morning loading up all their stuff into the truck and then while Amelia napped, we all relaxed and watched a little TV. 3 pm they headed home to Nanaimo. Boy is it quiet around here now! Tomorrow we put Christmas back in it's boxes for next year. :)

Our Grandaughter, Stella in Squamish enjoyed a wonderful Christmas too. Boy is she getting bigger.

Stella, Kat and Garrett

Stella with their dog Charlotte.

Quite the haul of gifts. :)

They keep her busy with gymnastics, wall climbing, dance class and music at home with mommy and daddy.