Christmas in Montana - 2011

Gram and Grandpa’s Ranch is always a fun and magical place for us at Christmas time. We built the biggest snow man ever!

The middle snow ball was so heavy it took all four of us to lift it up. Anna loved the snow man and even tried to make her own. Every time she saw the snowman she would sing, “tall, tall, tall.” Chris was gung ho on the snow man building.

Anna liked to eat the snow too. I thought she looked like a pink marshmallow in that snow suit, waddling around. Her and her cuz were sure cute together.

It was baby Elise’s first Christmas.  We all had a beautiful Christmas morning.

Elise got an ornament with her name and birthdate engraved in it. She also put everything in her mouth, preferring to eat her presents then to open them.

All of the great grand-girls got western shirts to match great grandpa’s.

Chris thought he was too big to be turned upside down and tickled and was proved wrong. Kent went down flat after giving 3 girls a horsey ride.

Grandma made the grandkids aprons and the guys in the family sported mustaches.

Gram and Grandpa were amazing hosts and are just the cutest couple ever. Uncle Chris was so much fun.

Grandpa got the horses out for us to ride. Anna absolutely loved it and kept singing, “horsey, horsey, on our way…” Elise also got her first horse ride.

Grandma had amazing crafts and activities for the grand girls to do. They had so much fun sitting at the table together doing so many fun things. Anna especially was thrilled to be sitting at a “big” table with older girls.

Aunt Maria even built a ginger bread house with Anna.

One of the best things about going to Montana was that Grandma was able to play with all of her grandchildren. They all had so much fun! They baked cookies, played with play dough, made jingle-bell necklaces, decorated cookies, played ring around the rosy, painted pictures, and many other fun things. It was so neat to see grandma with the girls, she is so good with them. They all warmed up to Grandma very quickly, though it took a while for them to warm up to Grandpa.