Christmas 2008

A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! Our computer went to he hospital and had to have major surgery. I went through computer withdrawal over the holidays but I am happy to report the computer and I have made a full recovery!

Now that we are back in business, I have a few things to post.

Christmas this year was great!

We started our festivities on Christmas Eve at our house. The Nadeau family was all in attendance as we had a traditional Nadeau Christmas. When I was a child on Christmas Eve we always had Faspa – this is a Mennonite word – not sure exactly what it means – but for us it was essentially cold food appetizers for dinner – never eaten at the table – but instead we opened gifts as we ate.

We had a wonderful time, Jackie learned the art of opening gifts – she also made a great “Santa” handing out gifts to everyone. It was nice to spend some quality time with everyone and it did not go too late since on Christmas morning we packed everything up and headed to Adam’s Mom’s place.

Amy and her boyfriend Scott

Christmas in Canmore was delayed by a day – since Adam’s sister was not able to arrive until late afternoon on the 25th, we all decided to do Christmas morning on the 26th – but we had Christmas dinner on the 25th still.

Canmore was great – Adam’s brother and his wife came, I have not seen them since our wedding. We ate lots, drank a bit (a bit for me anyway since I am still breast feeding), talked tons and relaxed even more. Adam got a chance to go skiing, Jackie got a chance to know her Aunts and Uncle even better and spend some quality time with Grandma and Grandpa.

Grandma and Grandpa showed us they still have the knack to get a fussy infant to sleep (thank you again!)

Jackie cleaned up on gifts this year – a super huge thank you to everyone!

Overall Christmas this year was a resounding success – the best part was that for Adam and I we feel like our family is now complete – it was great to be able to look around and know we are all here.

This little wooden train is a toy Great Grandpa (Eric's Dad) send to Eric for the grand children to play with. This was a toy bought for Eric when he was 4. Jackie loved it - she pulled it all over the house and Brutis usually followed.

Grandpa - or Papa as she is calling him was her favourite person on this trip. Thye had a great time playing together.