Teresa and the kids decided decided to go sledding when invited by my sister Kathy. Kathy was already taking her grandkids. These are Rachael and Slane’s cousins; Lena, Lola and Ben, who you see here a lot.

They were sledding at Schiller Park and the temperature wasn’t as frigid as it’s been the past few days. It got up to 36 today and the past few days it’s been in the teens and low 20’s.

They were able to use the new sleds they received as Christmas gifts from their Great Aunt Sherri.

According to Teresa everyone was tired, but had fun.

Christmas 2010

Early Christmas cars.

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Christmas Cookies

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Christmas

Christmas is in full swing at our house.

We have our tree and Teresa and the kids decorated it. I think Slane gets the idea of not touching it.

We think we are going to break tradition this year and have the tree remain upright for the entire season. We have my mother’s old tree stand which is welded steel and cranks the stump into a 90 degree angle.

On Wednesday Rachael’s school took the kids to see Santa at Tuttle Mall. They were supposed to go on Monday, but the weather was too bad. Rachael was given this nice hat and asked for a live dragon and a live puppy. She has a better chance of getting the live dragon.

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