Christmas Eve- First snow of the year!!

Jeff woke the boys up late on Christmas Eve when the snow started coming down heavily... the first snow of the season... what a beautiful sight!  It's been so many years since we had a good snow here, the boys barely remembered what snow was like.

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Our family tradition continued this year with our tree selection and purchase in the Gator Golf parking lot.  After stringing the lights, the boys and I started with the decorations. 

I was reminded again of the differences between boys and girls.  Decorating the tree was a much different experience with these boys than I remember as a youth.  For them it's all about "how quickly can we get them up and get the job done?".  When I have decorated it by myself, I spent time with each decoration-- taking a little trip down memory lane.  This year, it was done in about 10 minutes!

Finished tree

Now it was the boys turn to decorate their fake tree downstairs.  They get to use whatever color lights and decorations they want to use.


This year, blue was the light color of choice:

The boys got a little distracted:

Matthew's Christmas Play- 5th grade

Yes, our son is a dancing elf in the 5th grade Christmas play... and he wore a Christmas Tree skirt as his costume... there, I said it!

It was actually a very cute play and Matt did a fine job dancing... it was a flashback to the Bee Gee era watching his disco moves (John Travolta, move aside!)

Ah Ah Ah Ah Staying Alive, Staying Alive
can you hear it?

Note that Matt is the only elf with a constume besides a hat... Matt's not afraid to be original!

You'll have to ask Matt why this picture is included :)

Christmas pictures-- 2009 Christmas Card

Once again, the Seiter family sat in front of the hearth, while Daddy clicked the button on the camera, and ran to get into the pic before the self-timer went off.  This year, the difference in picture quality is the camera.  Jeff and I bought our Christmas gift for each other ahead of time this year... a nice camera with multiple lenses.  YEAH!  Once I get over the fear of breaking it, I might actually use it :)

Below are some of our more serious pics followed by some goofy pics.  We took many many pictures this year and only a few turned out because Noah has developed a blinking disorder... everytime the flash went off, he blinked or was captured in mid-blink! 

See the pic below... would have been a good one except for Mr. Blinky!

His eyes are wide open here!