White December

We have had a fun couple of weeks. First of all it actually snowed! This doesn't happen very often around here, so we lived it up. We got about an inch of white fluffy, very wet stuff. And it was fun to watch the kids get wet and cold and to watch everything shut down. We had arranged to take family pictures the morning after so we have a nice white background for our southern Christmas letter this year (pics to come soon)!

This is the grand total...enough to make a few snowmen and throw snowballs at one another. The kids played with every last bit of it...even getting the stuff off of the cars in the end.

I love this of Maren...she is watching it snow inside with her snow hat on...as if anticipating the cold to come.

Spencer joining in on the watching...his response was "It's raining, mom"

This train tours around some southern and midwestern cities during the holidays. It was really fun, with several cars to walk through, including Santa, model trains, and lots of Christmas lights and decorations inside.

Spencer is still terrified of Santa...he will at least talk about him this year, but won't go near him unless I accompany him.

Spencer was in train heaven...
he could have spent all day inside watching all the model trains go by.

A few random shots of my boys...

Did I mention how nice it is to have this one home!!!!

And Amanda trying on her new glasses, we discovered she is very near sighted.

The first thing she tells me when she puts them on (the ones with the prescription in them) is "mom you have wrinkles!" Gotta love her anyways=)


And our family tradition of making gingerbread cookies...the kids love this.

And it was fun to watch them get into the decorating this year.

Santa and Mrs Claus?