Once again we got to travel to MN for Christmas. We got stuck an extra day because the roads were bad and we could not head out on Saturday for home. So we took advantage of it and played in the snow. Noah got his first snowmobile ride and ate a ton of cookies. Lydia enjoyed spending time with people and showing off her smiles and giggles. We had the chance to spend some time with the Shaks and Louies, and managed to sneak a lunch in at Za with Cindy and one of Nathan's hockey games. Noah and Eli had many sword and gun fights, Noah and Orion had many disagreements and shoving matches, Ty was wowed by Lydia, and Anika and Aubrey got to be big sisters and cousins to everyone and help out with Lydia and Noah a lot. Harley and Kayla spent a lot of time playing with Noah and running from him because he would try to ride them like horses and cuddle with them, however, by the end Kayla knew she could always con Noah into giving her treats, so they were much better friends. All in all it was an exhausting but very fun time. It is always great to see the cousins together. The adults had fun as well. We had Raab Cousins bowling which may become a tradition. The Rangitsch's had a gift exchange which headed in the usual Rangitsch direction of deer heads and perversion. I think we permanently damaged our Grandparents opinion of us all.
