Boxing Day Miracle!

For those of you who know our family well, you will know that we always have some sort of fiasco or funny story tell. These stories have been affectionately named by all of our close friends as "O'Donnell Stories". They usually involve my husband, Chris and I suppose in an inadvertant way today is no different. Chris always has some project going on and the latest one has been getting all of our speaker wires and home entertainment equipment set up. This would involve a hole in the wall underneath all of our equipment. Fast forward to Kenton and I playing with our new kitty this morning...See where I'm going with this one folks?? You guessed it...before I could even react to what was happening, our brand new Christmas kitty crawled into the hole. This particular wall is connected to another wall in our bedroom by our ensuite shower. We knocked on all the walls, hoping to scare kitty to come out, to no avail. After about 20 minutes, we no longer heard the kitty meowing in response to our knocks. We all were a pretty sad bunch trying to figure out what we were going to do. We finally decided that the only thing to be done was to cut a hole in the wall behind our dresser and see if we could see anything there. Finally, we heard another meow, but unfortunately kitty was stuck in the very spot Chris had hoped that he wasn't. Christopher had to poke the kitty from one side of the wall, while Chris tried to pull the kitty out by his tail on the other side. Finally, our new little baby was saved! What a miracle!

Christmas Gift!

I have been trying to get my hands on a special gift for my family for a week or so now, but things just weren't working out. By Christmas Eve day, I had given up hope, but lo and behold, I finally found just what I was looking for...It was delivered to us on Christmas Day...

Opening Presents

Just thought I'd share a couple of pics of the boys opening their presents...and their different styles of doing so....

An eleven year old opening his present...

A teenager opening his present....

Merry Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas Eve everybody! All of us O'Donnells are enjoying a wonderful white Christmas. The snow started falling on Christmas Eve early in the morning and hasn't let up much since. My family all met up at my parents' a little earlier than usual on Christmas Eve, due to church being cancelled because of the snow. While we were waiting for all of our favourite appies in the oven, we took turns taking Dad's snowmobile out for a spin. What a perfect thing to do on Christmas Eve...go for a sleigh ride!

Christmas Is Coming!

My favourite time of year is soon upon us.
Here are some treasures...new and old...

My pics don't do these cuties justice...I got the penguin from Chris and the boys for my birthday, and I had bought the hedgehog earlier.

This is another birthday present from my favourite store, Home Sense. He's a black beaded reindeer. So cute!

Each Christmas season, each little critter or decoration becomes a part of the family to me. :)