Santa

I believe in Santa! Here he is! And you have to love his first truck! (Thanks Grandma!)

First shots with my new camera!

Hi, everyone! Guess what? I got a new camera for Christmas, and I'm so excited! (Keith likes playing with it too.) It's a Canon Digital Rebel--an SLR!! Yay! So, here are a few pictures from our Christmas celebration in Seattle. It's probably good we're here this year, since my grandparents are moving, so we had our last Christmas dinner at their house, and we also lost a family member--my dad's aunt died last Friday. It's kind of a relief, since she had been very ill for a long time. I've been helping my mom a lot, so she has time to help her parents look for their new place and pack. So, on to the pictures...

First, the "children" prance around the corner and get their stockings, and see what "Santa" brought them. Santa happened to be using my present at the time to take pictures of us!


After breakfast, we opened the rest of the presents. We received new ornaments and a couple pieces of our china from Ilene! (Thanks a lot!)


Keith and Colin tested out Keith's new frisbee... glow in the dark and recycled!


Keith called his family while watching the snow outside. We sort of had a white Christmas... it stuck to the lawn, but not the road, thankfully.


We had Christmas dinner with my mom's family, having spent Christmas Eve with my dad's family. Grandmother recently broke her hip, so the rest of the family prepared the meal, set up, and cleaned up. She hadn't been home since her accident at the end of November. It was really good to spend time with my family.


So, looking forward to seeing Christmas pictures from the rest of you! Enjoy the other 11 days of Christmas... and if you haven't already, go read our Christmas letter!

Love, Celia

Michael & Daddy

Here are a few pictures of Joseph as a baby & Michael more will come when I can figure out how to put them side by side

Just showing off again... (we love the truck Grandma!)

By the way, thanks for the Christmas cards and birth gifts for Michael! We did get them- I am just slow to get our cards out! Some of the gifts we are waiting to open until Christmas. I look forward to next week with my family where I will certainly have time (and probably help) getting all our cards (Christmas, Announcement, baptism and thank you) out!

Love ya!

Our Christmas letter...

Hi, everyone! Merry Christmas!

We're finally done with our school stuff, and we're at my parents' house in Seattle, until sometime shortly before New Year's. Thus, we've had time to write our Christmas letter! It's only going on our blog this year, since we want to save paper... and it's cheaper. So, go look at it!

We'll miss you, but we're looking forward to seeing everyone in January for Michael's baptism! Keith just got our tickets. We'll post interesting Christmas pictures, if there's anything interesting to post... :)

Love, Celia (and Keith)

Aberdeen, Bath time and Christmas

We had a nice time in Aberdeen this past weekend. It was fun seeing Elizabeth and Michael together. I really enjoyed getting a photo of the four generations of Olsons!

I posted pictures of Michael's first bath(s). I told Joseph one night that we needed to give him his first bath and while I was switching the load of laundry Joseph wanted to do me a favor by giving MJ a "bath" without me! Mommy wasn't happy... But he didn't use soap (??!??) so we tried it again the next night, this time with mommy, photos and soap! We tried to get his hand and foot prints first which is why he has blue hands and feet. The cat wanted to get in on the bath too! Michael cried during this bath but didn't cry during his next one.

To see photos, go to our usual photo site: http://jcolson.shutterfly.com

I love the pictures of the Rudolph family! It's fun deciding who looks like who- like who has Eric's ears! Haha! The kids look really cute and the parents look fantastic!

Saturday we head to Bismarck for the week. My oldest brother built a new home this fall and most of my family will be there. Yesterday Santa and I had a conference. Santa wasn't going to visit us this year, but since Michael will be surrounded by his young cousins we (Santa and I) didn't want them to think Michael was already a bad boy because he didn't get anything for Christmas!

Love ya! Have a wonderful Christmas!

He's a keeper!

More pictures of our awesome little guy! His face has already filled out more and his hand coordination has greatly inproved!

He recieved a puppy blanket, like Elizabeth's ducky blanket so I think we need a picture of the cousins lounging on their respective blankets.

Hi from Michael!

Hi everyone! My mommy has been busy loving and taking care of me so she is sorry she hasn't posted news about me sooner! I am doing very well. I'm a week old already! The amount I sleep depends on the amount I eat. Mommy and daddy like it when I eat a lot. Mommy says I have trouble opening my jaw up wide enough to eat, but I'm getting better at it!

Daddy is the best! He seems to change all my poopy diapers. (Mommy doesn't mind at all) Daddy takes good care of mommy too and makes her breakfast, changes me while she gets ready to feed me (even in the middle of the night). She would be lost without him!

Everyone says I look like my daddy. Only one person has told me I look like Mom! Mommy thinks that is a good thing since daddy is so handsome.

Here are a few photos. For more pictures you can go to http://jcolson.shutterfly.com/ Mommy will try to update this site as much as possible, so add it to your favorites.