Walking in a Winter Wonderland

First of all.....Merry Christmas! Peace and joy to all.
We've been a bit preoccupied around here with our perpetual to-do list. Lots of getting ready for Christmas, getting ready for baby.....you'd think we would feel prepared by now, but as I type it is closing in on 11pm Christmas Eve and Matt is downstairs frantically wrapping Christmas presents. Not his fault though - between extreme snow shoveling, multiple power outages, some car issues and my tendency to add "just one thing" to the list, he hasn't been left a lot of time for the things he enjoys. Like wrapping. ;)
Today we carved out some time to go for our traditional Christmas Eve walk. (Does 2 years make a tradition? I guess you need to start somewhere!) Since Liam has still not discovered his snow-legs, we thought the baby backpack would be the way to go. He obviously didn't agree:


Or he may have been upset that we woke him up from this cozy little car seat slumber to drag him out into the cold:

Fortunately, he did come around and we ventured into our Winter Wonderland. Can you find Waldo?....

Most of the trail was very open, but we did make it a short way into the forested area. We heard/saw the snap of one very large branch under the weight of the snow and it was full speed out of there! I never would have guessed at that 9-months pregnant I'd have that much waddling power, but we really motored back to the clearing!
Look out below!:

Time to go stuff some stockings and prepare to train Liam in Advanced Paper Ripping. So far he's showing a natural talent! :)