Snow days!!!

We got dumped on again!!! School was cancelled Wednesday and Thursday. Justin also got to stay home since the roads were so bad. The kids had so much fun out there in the freezing cold! A snow day wouldn't be complete without a cave, right? I don't know who enjoyed it more, Justin or the kids!!

This is crazy!! It doesn't snow often here, so people are so funny about it!! I'd call this a good storm!!!

Our attempt to let Miles in on the action. He didn't make it two steps out of the garage before he was saying "all done!" We had a better view from the front door anyway!

Warm inside and we had snacks while we watched the show!!

What a cutie!!

Snowed in

So it was my weekend to work and this is what we woke up to!! I was three hours late to work, but we made it. Justin and the kids took me in, because I was too scared to drive by myself!! We loaded up the van with food, water, and lots of warm clothes just in case we got stuck. Thank heavens we didn't!!! I just ended up sleeping over at work - what an adventure that was!! Everyone was having a hard time getting into work so the ones that were there were working around the clock!! I did get about two hours sleep in between my long shifts! Boy was I glad to get home Sunday night!! The rest of the fam had a great time enjoying the snow while I was gone!

Christmas

I think I did like 10 posts in the last 3 days!! I just wanted to get all caught up!! I thought that all of these pictures got deleted off or our camera. So even though there is a lot to look at, I'm just glad we still had them! For almost six weeks straight someone in our family has been sick. We are sick and tired of being sick!!

Christmas was awesome! The kids got more than enough and we just had a lot of fun hanging out together. Kids make this time of year so magical - I just love it!

Don't mind the crazy mom in the background trying to get out of the way!

Christmas Eve

We had some goodies to deliver so I bribed the kids to help me and promised we would go to Chick-fil-A after. They wanted to dress festive and boy did they!! I even had a red shirt on. We were the hit of the fast food chain!! I think everyone we passed made a comment. Though I was kind of embarrassed, the kids loved it!

We had a great time having our traditional Christmas Eve picnic. Nothing special - I have just done it every year for my whole life and I love it!!! It would be even better if we were home with everyone, but we still know how to have a good time!!!!!

The kids got to open two presents on Christmas Eve this year - the traditional pj's and the awesome blankets that grandma Lu made them. They were both a hit!! The kids drag those blankets everywhere!! They are so warm and cozy!!

What a cheeseball!!!

Just hanging out in the lazy susan!

Christmas party

This is the only picture I took at the school Christmas party. I had the two little guys with me and they kept me pretty busy. Between Miles escaping the classroom several times and Marcus knocking over his hot chocolate everywhere we managed to have a great time. They had a sing a long for the whole school after which was so fun! It brought me back to the good old days of elementary school when we sang together every morning in the gym. Shannon - do you remember that? Good times.

Now this is snow!!!

This storm was much better than the first. They even cancelled church! Wahooo! They had a blast and froze their buns off. Everything looked so pretty. With all the bare trees here it really looked like a winter wonderland!!

No! No! No!

This guy sure is cute, but man oh man does he keep me busy!!!!!!!!!! He doesn't talk much and since putting up the tree he has been able to add no no no to his vocabulary!! Any time he is by the tree, ripping an ornament off, or sneaking back in the corner he screams his new words NO NO NO! This was sure a long month, I was glad to get all the decorations put away! Too much temptation for a mischievous little explorer.