It's Christmas!

This past weekend was a bunch of fun-filled activities! Saturday was the "Montag" Christmas gathering, complete with Christmas Carols, a Christmas Rap Dance by Jenny & Cassie, a ton of food, and Santa Clause! Mason was so excited that Santa brought him a tool set~he even slept with it! We left there about 8:30pm, and went to plow out Shane's grandparents driveway~ luckily we made it that far, his diesel truck gelled up, and we were stuck in the freezing windy weather. Shane tried to fix it, out in the cold, but it still wouldn't start. His dad came at 11:30pm to pull him to our heated garage, which he then worked on til about 3:30am. Then had to get up at 6:30am to go do more plowing!

On Sunday, the "Sabraski" family took a Christmas vacation to The Lodge Waterpark in Baxter, MN. Mason had a blast~he loves the water, and had fun going down the slides (just the kiddie ones), and sitting in the hot tub, that was indoor/outdoor! We swam all day, then went back to the room for pizza and playstation. I put Mason to bed, and then was just getting ready for bed myself around 11pm, when the firealarms went balistic! It was the loudest noise I've heard. Shane went to see where (or if) there was a fire. Sonja and I went to another room to see if we should get out! Just then, we turned around to go back to our room, and we saw SMOKE! Oh crap, get the kids, we see smoke! We go upstairs (we had a loft room) to grab Mason and Skyeler, who were sound asleep, wrap them in a blanket and get ready to leave. Just then, Shane comes back and says there's no fire.....a sprinkler system went off! What a relief! (The smoke we had seen was steam outside coming from the dryers in the laundry room.) We put the kiddos back in their bed and go check out the comotion! What we saw was unbelievable.... It was the Niagra Falls pouring down the balcony on to the lobby (look closely at the last picture...it's not the waterpark, it's the lobby). A water pipe had apparently froze and burst on the 2nd floor. They chain and padlock all the valves to prevent people from messing with them, so not even the manager could shut the water valve off! The fire dept. arrived about 45 minutes later, and cut the chains off!

Merry Christmas to All!