It's Begining to Look a lot Like Christmas

The snow hit us this weekend. All the white flakes have found their way back to New England as history shows. All the town was a buzz on Saturday hearing about the storm headed our way, and after seeing the damage done in DC, I was anxiously awaiting the down fall. EVERYONE on Saturday was hustling an bustling around trying to do last minute Christmas shopping, get their homes filled with food, and do whatever errands they needed to complete before the storm hit.
The Gentry family was no different, Christian hit Market Basket up at 7:00 a.m. for groceries, only to find out they opened early at 6:00 a.m. and thus the parking lot was full. He was glad he went then however, as we drove past a few hours later, there were major traffic jams on all streets around the Market Basket. They had to have a cop directing traffic into the parking lot.

We also didn't want to miss what may have been our last chance to get Berkeley's picture taken with Santa. So we headed to Meadow Glen aka "Ghetto" Glen Mall for a visit with the Jolly Old Soul himself. This Santa was about as cute as they come; he was so sweet and patient with all the little kids going crazy. Berke didn't mind Santa at all. The workers instructed me to not let Berke look at Santa so he wouldn't start crying. Well it wasn't easy getting a good picture because as soon as Berke was sitting on Santa's lap, he started doing his ever famous rock back and forth. He looked at Santa a few times, smiled, no big deal. We finally got a smile out of him when he got to play with Rudolph, he gave him a little honk on the nose for good luck.
I cant believe this is Berke's first Christmas, cause he looks like such a big guy in this picture.
(Sorry about the quality, it is a picture of a picture)

What else should a family do on a snowy weekend? Well if you are Berke, you find great joy playing on McDuff's bed; it is so much better than his crib.

We also did lots of movie watching, we watch ELF every Christmas, it is a family tradition. We also watched Julie and Julia, totally loved it. I was hungry the entire movie, looking at all of that delicious food. Church was cancelled, so we basically stayed in our PJ's all day and were pretty lazy. We did get laundry and dishes done, so it wasn't a complete waste.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday this week!