Pictures from Branch Christmas Party...a month late...

We are lucky to have Santa in our own branch ;) Brother and Sister Kramer are a very sweet older couple. Yes, Brother Kramer's beard and hair is real. He used to be Santa for many Christmases, and evan was in People's magazine few years back. Our branch party was a month ago and they had all the branch members take pictures with him, which was great. I was meaning to use these photos for Christmas cards this year, but end up being too busy, so it never got done... Thanks for all the cards that were send to us though. 

            Merry Christmas &

               Happy New Year 2009

One of the highlights of Christmas was to see my mom play tennis on wii. 

I gave the wii for Bobby for Christmas, but it was a big hit for my mom too. she got really into it being a national ping pong champion and all.

We had a wonderful Holiday season when my parents were visiting from Finland. We enjoyed their stay here a lot and miss them now when they are gone. After visiting us they went for a week to warmer Las Vegas to visit my sister Reina and her family. We have our fair share of snow, wind and ice this Christmas, but that's ok. We were very happy that my mom and dad made the long trip to visit us. From Detroit airport it took them extra 5 hours with a shuttle to get here because it was snowing and the roads were bad, but luckily they were safe. Matthew and Timo loved seeing mummo and pappa. They also loved Christmas and opening presents. We managed to do a little nativity scene Matthew being a wise man and Timo a shephard. My dad took some pictures of all of us, and maybe I'll get them uploaded one day when I get a hold to them. Here is a lot of pictures...

I remember when my dad used to play this with me :)

Reading with mummo.

Opening first presents.

Enjoying the new slide.

Timo played his part very well for few seconds.

Bed time stories with Daddy and Timo's favorite bear.

Matthew and Timo enjoyed making cookies.