Thanks Dan, I ended up getting the best shots with an exposure of between 1" and 1/250, my lowest aperature of 5.6 and my ISO at 800. Any lower ISO and it was pretty dark, any higher, too grainy (as you can see in some pics). I also turned off my mirror, set the image stabilizer to off, set the timer and then focused with auto focus, then switched that to manual focus and hit the timer and tried not to get my steamy breath from the cold in front of the lens
Thanks Smarty Pantz, no problem, keep all the ones you want
The camera is a Canon Rebel T2i that Paul bought for me this year. I'm really just starting to learn it so had to dig into the user guide for these shots. I also did a bit of research online before I set the camera.