My very last Christmas post, I promise!

CHRISTMAS EVE:

Aunt BB and E spending some quality time together while rolling out the dough for the annual Wright Family Christmas Cookies.
She kept right on working on her cookies after the rest of us were done.
These are my kind of cookies: Heavy on the sprinkles and frosting! Well done, Elena.

CHRISTMAS DAY:

We had a fantastic Christmas. We all felt very blessed/spoiled. It was so fantastic in fact, that my parents announced that we will each only get 4 gifts next year: Something you want, something you need, something to play with, something to read. Sounds good to me. :)
This train set was a big hit.

I love the resurgence of 80's toys like Strawberry Shortcake:
A favorite gift of Dan's:

BOXING DAY (if we were in Canada):

This snow storm was amazing and breathtakingly gorgeous. It started on Christmas in the evening and kept right on snowing for about 24 hours. 12 inches worth. One thing I love about living in this region? It was almost 70 degrees less than a week later.

He could not walk at all.

On the 27th, Grandad used his boundless energy to pull the grandkids around the yard on a boogie board.

The second to the last...

We each got a Wii for Christmas because my awesome older brother was a programmer on Epic Mickey (which is super fun btw). We all enjoyed playing Epic Mickey as well the Wii Sports Resort and a couple of other games.
Even my dad did some bowling! I couldn't believe it. :)
For some reason, nothing is more fun to these kids than pulling out all the cereal and playing peek-a-boo in the cupboard. Elena introduced Kevin to the fun, and then he taught Ari in the video below.
As you can see in the video above, Kevin was a little pushy with his littler cousin. Well, it only took a few days before she figured out that she needed to fight back. He modeled the correct usage of the word "mine!" for her over and over, and soon she was a pro at that too. He stopped being so bossy after a couple of days, and it was so cute to see them play together.
It was so good to see Erin and Bami while we were both in town. I'm so, so, so grateful that our parents still live across the street from each other! I love that whole family. Poor Erin was sick at the time, but she was still a good sport to take a picture with us. :)
Look at my sweet niece's little pigtails! So cute!
This was the family (plus a couple of missionaries in the back and minus an under-the-weather Ari and her parents) caroling at Nana DiSistos.
Our view of some of the DiSistos from the front porch. There's more of them in the front room. Is it any wonder that it's our favorite stop each Christmas Eve?
This wasn't in Virginia or in December, but I love this pic of Kevin sleeping at the science museum. He's such a good boy. 5 minutes prior, he was running around and laughing.

Aquarium in December

I've decided to break up our Christmas pictures into smaller, easier to view chunks. We had a great time at the Virginia Aquarium with the whole family (minus Mom). We look forward to going back soon since my parents bought a membership. Yay!