Tis' the season

We spent last weekend in Eau Claire with Ben's family. To do some swimming, relaxing, talking, and eating. On the way to Eau Claire we stopped at the Harley shop in NR to get the kids picture taken with Santa. We actually got smiles from both of them. But when Santa asked Connor what he wanted for Christmas, Connor went mute. He didn't move, and wouldn't say anything. Even when we asked him if he wanted that truck with the doors that open, he couldn't even shake his head yes.....So hopefully santa knows what he wants:)



Leyla wasn't too fond of Santa however. No smiles from her, just screams.

As we left the Harley shop we came opon this mini of a car with this ginormous of a tree on top. The picture just doesn't do it justice. It was seriously the funniest thing we have seen. On top of that, both Dane and I had rolled down the windows in order to take a picture of it and the lady in the passenger seat started to laugh along with us, but then I think she realized that she was more embarrassed of the situation. It still gave us many laughs.

We finally made it to the hotel, checked in, unloaded the van, and got our suits on to go swimming. We got to the pool and stuck our feet in and we were lucky there wasn't a layer of ice on top of the pool. It was ridiculously COLD. Since the whole meaning behind our staying at a hotel was to go swimming, this sucked. So Dane went and complained about the pool and they said they would crank up the heat on it. Well we sat for a few minutes thinking about what to do, thinking about how it would take all night to heat a pool that size, and decided we would see if we could get a reservation at a different hotel, with a warm pool. Ben found a hotel just down the road, and asked them to take the temperature of the pool for us, and he said it was high 70's and should be very warm because the hot tub and pool are connected and the water from the hot tub spills into the pool. So we then go see if we can get out of the reservations that we already have, that's when they decide to tell us that the heater in the pool is broken....Seriously, you are just figuring this out now, and were you going to come tell us. Anyways, we got out of that place and went to the new place, where the water was like bath water it was so warm! And we ended up getting a suite for the same price that we payed at the other hotel. So all in all, it ended up working out for the best, except for the fact that we waisted a few hours packing and unpacking and packing and unpacking again.

Here is Connor and Leyla getting ready to go swimming.

And Bella all ready, playing with her toes as she waits.


On our way home we stopped and finally got our christmas tree.

Look familiar.....I had to take a picture of what ours looked like as compared to the other car.

Connor was taking our pictures in the car on our way home. He actually managed to capture a pretty cute one of Bella. Usually he doesn't look where he is aiming the picture and just pushes the button and usually there will be just someones forehead or just their chin in the picture, so I was pretty impressed with this one.

And this one....

So we got home and unpacked from the weekend and then put the tree up. Here is Bella helping to decorate the tree.

And here is what Connor was doing while we were decorating the tree. Don't ask, I have no idea why, or what he was doing.

Finally he decided to help and even got to put the star on top of the tree. Which was not easy! But he is very proud of the fact that he got to put the star on top.

And the family in front of the tree.