Here is our little elf for Christmas. In Finnish tradition someone wears the elf hat and passes out the gifts on Christmas Eve to be opened. Mummi gave this hat to Kaleb while he was still in the hospital after he was born for his first Christmas. It fits much better now.
This year we got to go to Kanab for Christmas and I was very excited because we had not been there for Christmas since 2004. Since we did not have time to make Finnish Christmas cookies at Mummi's over Kaleb's birthday, she sent some dough with us and told Mikko to make some cookies with Kaleb the next week. Well we never had time on Monday or Tuesday, so when we arrived in Kanab Christmas Eve day Mikko and Kaleb got to work.
It was hard to get Kaleb to stop playing with Grandma Brown's ball game but we got the apron on that grandma made for him and snapped a couple of pictures, soon after this, he was down and back to the balls. Mikko did a great job at the cookies and it shows that he has actually made them before although he admits he has never made the dough, just cut out the cookies to be baked.
Christmas Eve we all went out to my brothers home (Matt and Julie) for dinner and the traditional reading and acting of the Nativity. The food was in abundance and delicious of course. In this picture we made a little stable for the baby Jesus and Kaleb took his turn at playing the part although he would not get into it when we actually started the Nativity.
Then we was willing to be dressed up as a shepherd and that lasted for a little while, as long as he was able to carry the cane around, but again this was ditched in about 5 minutes, but he sure does look like the cutest shepherd boy to me.
Here is the Nativity cast from LtoR we have Shaye, Brandon, Nathan, Joshua, Dalton, Emily and Morgan and the two angels are Ria and Brooklyn. Just a note about Nathans outfit, he had this horse costume but it was about 3 sizes to small for him. Nate was only sporting some briefs under the outfit and he kept zipping and unzipping the outfit. We all kept commenting that this Nativity horse could have a show somewhere in Vegas! The outfit was seriously too tight for this young boy to be wearing. :o) Also when Kaleb saw Brandon for the first time with the white beard, he yelled "Santa"!
Christmas morning came and Mikko woke up at 6:45am and said he was ready to go if anyone else was. He does not quite like to wait for Christmas morning to open presents, because in Finland they open gifts on Christmas Eve. Anyway, Brant's kids were not awake and neither was Kaleb around 7:30 all the kids finally woke up. I was so excited for Kaleb but of course he could care less. He did not even want to come into the family room. The first thing he did was go to the ball game that Grandma and Grandpa had. We had to beg and plead and then physically bring him in the room to open presents. Here he is with his Duplo's which he likes and does very well building things on his own. He is such a smart boy.
Such a cute smile I got out of him. Here is Kaleb and all his spoils from Santa and family. He got way too much as usual. He was happy with the first toy he got in his stocking. We hope these gifts will keep him entertained for the next year. Poor kid, Birthday and Christmas within 5 days of each other.
Mikko is most proud of this picture. He says "that's my boy". Mikko received a pair of noise cancelling headphones for Christmas and Kaleb had to try them out and Mikko says he was quite the DJ in the making. He also got a haircut from Aunt Kristi and he is sporting the do here.
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Here is our little elf for Christmas. In Finnish tradition someone wears the elf hat and passes out the gifts on Christmas Eve to be opened. Mummi gave this hat to Kaleb while he was still in the hospital after he was born for his first Christmas. It fits much better now.
This year we got to go to Kanab for Christmas and I was very excited because we had not been there for Christmas since 2004. Since we did not have time to make Finnish Christmas cookies at Mummi's over Kaleb's birthday, she sent some dough with us and told Mikko to make some cookies with Kaleb the next week. Well we never had time on Monday or Tuesday, so when we arrived in Kanab Christmas Eve day Mikko and Kaleb got to work.
It was hard to get Kaleb to stop playing with Grandma Brown's ball game but we got the apron on that grandma made for him and snapped a couple of pictures, soon after this, he was down and back to the balls. Mikko did a great job at the cookies and it shows that he has actually made them before although he admits he has never made the dough, just cut out the cookies to be baked.
Christmas Eve we all went out to my brothers home (Matt and Julie) for dinner and the traditional reading and acting of the Nativity. The food was in abundance and delicious of course. In this picture we made a little stable for the baby Jesus and Kaleb took his turn at playing the part although he would not get into it when we actually started the Nativity.
Then we was willing to be dressed up as a shepherd and that lasted for a little while, as long as he was able to carry the cane around, but again this was ditched in about 5 minutes, but he sure does look like the cutest shepherd boy to me.
Here is the Nativity cast from LtoR we have Shaye, Brandon, Nathan, Joshua, Dalton, Emily and Morgan and the two angels are Ria and Brooklyn. Just a note about Nathans outfit, he had this horse costume but it was about 3 sizes to small for him. Nate was only sporting some briefs under the outfit and he kept zipping and unzipping the outfit. We all kept commenting that this Nativity horse could have a show somewhere in Vegas! The outfit was seriously too tight for this young boy to be wearing. :o) Also when Kaleb saw Brandon for the first time with the white beard, he yelled "Santa"!
Christmas morning came and Mikko woke up at 6:45am and said he was ready to go if anyone else was. He does not quite like to wait for Christmas morning to open presents, because in Finland they open gifts on Christmas Eve. Anyway, Brant's kids were not awake and neither was Kaleb around 7:30 all the kids finally woke up. I was so excited for Kaleb but of course he could care less. He did not even want to come into the family room. The first thing he did was go to the ball game that Grandma and Grandpa had. We had to beg and plead and then physically bring him in the room to open presents. Here he is with his Duplo's which he likes and does very well building things on his own. He is such a smart boy.
Such a cute smile I got out of him. Here is Kaleb and all his spoils from Santa and family. He got way too much as usual. He was happy with the first toy he got in his stocking. We hope these gifts will keep him entertained for the next year. Poor kid, Birthday and Christmas within 5 days of each other.
Mikko is most proud of this picture. He says "that's my boy". Mikko received a pair of noise cancelling headphones for Christmas and Kaleb had to try them out and Mikko says he was quite the DJ in the making. He also got a haircut from Aunt Kristi and he is sporting the do here.
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Looks like you had an adventurous Christmas in Kanab...I had that very same green and white checkered blankie when I was little. It was my very favorite. That brought back tons of memories. I hope I can find it again...I think it is at my mom's.
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