Christmas 2009 Part II: more pre-celebration

We celebrated Christmas a little early with the Van Dyk side. The kids had a great time with their other cousins.

Hale caused a little mischief (as usual).



Rocklyn bonded with the older girl cousins



Here is Cole - a great little friend to Hale.



Rocklyn and Tarelle listening to Mim's annual Christmas reading



We also did a little family celebration early in the Christmas week. Hale discovered that the boxes under the tree were not just there to make it easier to reach the ornaments...



...but actually had really cool stuff inside them. I'm very glad that he didn't figure that out until it was actually time to open them.