Whoa...Merry Christmas

Now I understand why all the bloggers take a long winters break from blogging over the holidays. It is HECTIC with a capital heck. We did the classic 3 families in 3 cities in 3 days Christmas, but this year we added an entire sick family into the mix. We barely even managed to take our camera out of the bag, hardly capturing baby's first Christmas at all. For shame! M started walking 3 days before the 25th and also is cutting both incisors. She hasn't any other teeth up there so we had this snot nosed zombie vampire walking around...I'll try to get a vid of her walking, it is really hilarious. She kind of looks like a little ape with her chubby belly.

These are mostly instagram pictures since that is all we had time for;

 Here is M at Ivan's mom's in front of the tree....

and passed out with her favorite toy....a cold can of beer.

Apparently we only had time to take pictures of me and Kathryn in wacky glasses at my Mom's.

And just one of M with her uncle Sasha at Ivan's dad's.

Highlights of the holiday include epic amounts of glorious food, a Tripp Trap (thanks Mom!) and Pepper not being eaten by the local coyote that has been attacking dogs in the area. We arrived home safe and sound, but thoroughly exhausted on the 26th evening.  One day to rest up and then off to the country!