White Christmas

We woke up Christmas morning to a winter wonderland. It was the first snow of the season and it was magical! What a Christmas gift!

Oh Christmas Tree

I love this picture. We enjoyed many nights by the tree and fireplace. Our tree was full of homemade ornaments, most of which go ruined by the flooding of our basement during the tornado outbreak. We'll have to make some more this year. There are no presents under the tree because if there were, they would all be opened. We also spread out the 15 ornaments that Molly hung on a single branch. We had a great time decorating and didn't want to take it down after Christmas.

Let it Snow

We had a bunch of snow this year! We had nearly a foot of snow on one occasion and work and school was cancelled for an entire week! We had snowball fights, built our snowman, rode around the yard on our makeshift sled, made snow angels and drank lots and lots of hot chocolate! Big fun! Nevermind that two of our three children are barefoot and without coats in this picture.

Catching Up

So, I am going to post some older pictures since it's been so long. This picture was taken just before Christmas. As you can imagine, the gingerbread house didn't last long. Amazingly, they all worked together and didn't fight. This past Christmas was really great. We made a commitment to slow down and avoid the usual craziness of the season. We missed our families but the time at home was priceless. We spent many evenings together by the fireplace. We came home from work and school and spent all of our evenings together just enjoying one another's company...playing games, reading books and hanging out in the rec room, where Matthew loves to play the Wii, Molly loves to play dollies and Emily loves to play legos (she was in the lego club last year at school). We really enjoyed the snow! I'll post a picture of that, too. We tried hard to teach the kids about Advent and to make Christmas about Christ instead of Santa. We had such a great time decorating our tree! I'll post a picture of that, too.