The Never Ending Christmas - Part 1

So we have the been experiencing the ultimate drawn out Christmas:

Christmas Eve Eve - Family Christmas at Home

Christmas Eve - Christmas in Eatonvillle with the Simpson side

Christmas Day - Christmas in Des Moines with the Johnson side

Day After Christmas - Christmas with Nicks Dad

Day After the Day After Christmas - Drive to Oregon

And that brings us to today - Christmas in Salem with the Jones Family

We've determined that though it has been fun seeing lots of family, this will be the last time we travel this much.

Here are a few photos of the last few days:

First is Maddie with her gifts from Mom and Dad

Next is Maddie with her GPop Marty

And last is Maddie with her favorite gift of all, the bag that her other gift came in

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait.

We're sorry it's been so long since our last post, but it gets busy this time of the year. I'm sure you all understand.

A few weekends ago we headed down to Oregon to visit family. The trip was tons of fun and we snapped a few great photos of Maddie while we were down there.

Here is Maddie acting out for the camera. And here she is enjoying one of Ron's extremely entertaining stories.

And lastly here she is enjoying some time with her Great Grandpa Howard.

Then last weekend we went down to Des Moines to kick it with Great Grandma Peg and Great Grandpa Jack. Here she is watching football with Jack.Then it started snowing like crazy over the next few days. We ended up with about 10 inches at our house and are expecting a few more inches tonight.
All this snow allowed Nick to stay home from work and we all went out and enjoyed Maddie's first snow! We think she liked it, though she just stared wide eyed the whole time.

Well, that's all for now. Sorry again for the delay, we'll get some Christmas photos up here soon.

Merry Christmas to all!

Oh the weather outside is weather.

The Christmas Spirit is slowly spreading into the Johnson household. We unpacked all of the Christmas boxes from the attic. Dianne started decorating the house while I strung lights outside. Awhile later we took Maddie out to cut her first Christmas tree (the tree has slightly more character than we at first anticipated). Then we spent the rest of the evening listening to holiday music while decorating the tree. You could say it is a true Christmas in the Northwest.