Rick and Staci came up for Christmas Eve dinner. We had some snacks, and Bruno made paella.
Chef Bruno
Alex
Nicole opens a gift from Uncle Rick and Aunt Staci.
Marcus and Alex open their gifts from Uncle Rick and Aunt Staci.
Staci and Rick
A photo op before Marcus runs off to church with his girlfriend, Alissha.
Alex and Rick
Alex keeping a path around the hottub cleared.
Is that.........the sun?
We wound up with probably a little over 2 feet of snow.
Bruno goes out to the shop every morning, so I kept shoveling, and shoveling a little path for him. 
Now doesn't sitting out on the deck look inviting!
The first of our snow. We'd still had a little bit from the snow on the 13th, so it quickly accumulated. By noon we had nine inches of snow!
Nicole and her neighbor friend Jase.
Our Frosty. (He was later that day the victim of a hit and run ATV rider)
Nicole was not too excited to be going for a visit with Santa, but since she was all dressed up for her Christmas concert we went. At first she was very hesitant, but Santa soon got her talking and they had a very nice visit.
Marcus, Alissha (on his left) and the rest of Synergy, sang several more traditional Christmas songs. Marcus had two solo parts in "White Christmas".
Karl, Marcus and Austin waiting for their parts to sing.
Men's choir.
Stephen, Marcus and Nick.
Concert Choir
Nicole walking in to the gym for the concert.
You can barely see her in the back row, singing "Rudolph".
They sang "Jingle Bells" too, they were so cute and did such a good job. Considering they had little time for practice at school, then the am kindergarten didn't have school for two days prior to the concert, the kids did great!
Alex shoveled the walkway first thing.
Just not good sledding weather.
Packing it in.
I hope she looks for yellow snow first.
Alex shoveling off the snow from the hot tub.
