Here is the first vacation gallery with pictures from our travel and initial arrival in northern Wisconsin. Due to COVID we mostly stayed to ourselves with Grandma Ellen and Grandpa Art being the only family we interacted with. Thankfully Chez Jacobs is a great place to hunker down. Some early snow helped us get in the holiday mood as well.
Christmas 2019
Here is a gallery from the family gathering for Christmas which included Paul, Lea Ann, Steve, Nina, Sara, Art, Ellen, Julie, Eric, Charlotte, Evelyn and Teddy. With the 4 of us as well it was a cozy house. We feel really fortunate that even with a short trip we were able to gather so many family together at the same time.
Christmas Eve Fondue with Grandma and Grandpa Jacobs
2012 Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve started early when our Elf of the Shelf named Danbury visited and left a series of clues that Kai and Nora had to follow to find their presents.   The clues alternated between pictographs (for Nora) and sentences (for Kai) so they could both participate.  That craft elf even had them running a few hundred feet up the road to the garage with the temps hovering close to zero.   Kai got a small star wars lego and Nora a Hello Kitty hat that she has yet to take off.
Later Ellen and Art as well as Aunt Karen joined us for a wonderful evening of conversation and the traditional Christmas Fondue.  The cheese didn’t curdle and there were no burns in the hot oil so – success!   Santa’s progress was tracked through the night via NORAD.
At bed time Nora was out like a light but Kai struggled between being unable to sleep due to anticipation combined with a fervent desire to will himself to sleep lest Santa give our house a pass due to restless kids.