All About the Z's!: Holidaze

This was the Zbaraschuk family Christmas - and we celebrated together in fine style up at the farm. We spent a total of 10 days there. When we landed, there was NO SNOW on the ground in Saskatoon, which caused a bit of panic for one Zachary but thankfully as we drove the 2 hours to the farm, by the time that we got there about four inches of snow blanketed the ground.

The kids had a FANTASTIC time playing with their cousins Emily, Connor and Kaylie. Kaleb adored Kaylie, and immediately began referring to her as "my little friend" - they were too cute all week playing together and laughing. As the house is large, there was a lot of running around but the kids also went outside a few times each day to sled. We were fortunate that the weather was quite mild, and the kids could be outside as much as they wanted. In fact, we had a couple of times above freezing! Who knew!?

Korey and Rachel joined the family there, so we had all of the Zbaraschuk brothers together. It was fun to catch up with everyone, REST, read (okay, that is just Amy's favorite thing to do), and play. There was entirely too much eating (Lorie is much to blame as she kept making Amy's FAVORITE Ukrainian dishes!!) - in fact at one point Rachel and Amy were comiserating over the level of pain that we were experiencing as we kept over-eating at each meal! :)

We went to the bowling alley the first Sunday that we arrived, and it was quite fun as Kaleb was big enough to play. It was 5 pin bowling where the balls are small, so the kids could actually bowl without too much difficulty. They also have a small rides/activity area there, so we headed over to the bumper cars, bounce house etc afterwards for some final minutes of fun.

With the sun not rising until about 8:45ish, Kaleb treated us to several mornings of a post 8AM wake-up and Zachary did his very best to sleep until 7A each morning (pretty good for Mr. Z, so we'll take it). The parents however stayed up playing games and working on puzzles, so we did not cash on on the extra sleep as much as we'd like! :)

Phrase of the week: Grandma is the luckiest person I know. Why is that Zachary? Because she lives where it snows! Kaleb's phrase occurred after he bumped his head on the headboard of his bed. He looked up very worried to Amy and said "Am I going to lose the rest of my hair?" Poor kid! No you won't sweetie! On that note, we should give an update that his hair appears to be growing back fast and furious, of which we are SO THANKFUL!