Merry Christmas

What an amazing year and to be able to complete it with an amazing Christmas too! We celebrated Christmas with our usual mish mash of family and friends on Friday. Kiet made egg rolls and mom brought over turkey and ham. What a feast! The boys were all here with Allen but we will have to wait for Kiet's sister Oanh to arrive due the the blizzard. She was supposed to arrive on Wednesday.

Saturday morning everyone came back over for a little gift exchange. We all drew numbers and picked from a pile of presents. We stole presents and laughed alot. I must admit that mom got the best gift. It is a rear end preventer. A little deer that goes on the hitch of your truck and raises it's hands every time you stop. We then gathered up all our stuff and headed to the cabin. We played in the snow, watched a little football and relaxed. Christmas morning we headed to the slopes for our tradition of skiing. Kiet stayed at the cabin and enjoyed some one on one time with his daughter. Connor, Eugene and Jeremy ROCKED!!!! They all picked up skiing and snowboarding like pros! We couldn't get Connor off the mountain. He must of skiied non stop for 5 hours straight.

The night before the Sheppard left we hung out with their kids while the unpacked. Can I say that they had fun in our dress up trunk or what. We also had Connor's best friend Justin Mestinck spending the night.

We always let our kids open one gift before Christmas!



Connor could not resist making snow angels in our backyard first thing in the morning. He and Olivia also sprayed all of the snow with food coloring so it looks like a rainbow. Connor was so happy to get his first MP3 player. He loves music.

I think that Jeremy and Charlie had a good time hanging out with family this year. We miss Phuong but know that she is in not pain where she is now.

Allen, Kiet's brother-in-law, had not been on skis in 20 years but you could not tell. Connor was a mad man on the slopes.



Jeremy snowboarding down the hill. This was only his second time and by the end of the day he was racing down blues. Eugene boraded for a couple hours and then off course took a nap sitting up.