Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas...

All our bags are packed, we are ready to go... I hope you know that I was singing that too.

Well friends, we are off. Heading back to the homeland for the holidays. The kids are very excited and Tanner has earned enough stickers on his chore chart to get his present for the journey. So, hopefully Santa finds the note and can get our presents to us elsewhere... wink, wink.

We as a family hope that you all have a glorious holiday season, and that you all get what you deserve (good or bad... hahaa.) Be good. Be safe. Remember the true reason of the season.

Baby it's cold outside...

Well, we did it kids, we made it all the way up to 0 degrees outside. Yup, that isn't what I call warm weather. But really, who wants warm weather? Christmas is a comin' and I want snow. Well, after this weekend, I don't want anymore, but I do want it to snow in Idaho so that we can have some serious ski time. Allow me to share why we haven't left our building for 3 days.

This is mid storm...

A few hours later

The drifts covered one windows...

And this is what it looks like today, if only they had mountains, this would be awesome.

Fortunatly Santa came to see us a few hours before the snow started.
Then we decorated gingerbread men and made little pinecone Christmas trees. It was fun, Tanner thought Santa was pretty cool, but he didn't tell him what he wanted. Oh well, a lump of coal it is!


Tis the season, be good.

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

I think I will use a Christmas song phrase for every post this month...

Well, here is our Christmas tribute this year. We didn't bring our tree, decorations, ornaments, anything really. But I did bring our stockings. So we made a tree out of wrapping paper and I let Tanner decide what shape and colors the decorations would be. We had a good time making it, and Kate has a good time un-making it. We enjoy redecorating it as we come across the makeshift ornaments around the house.

We have also had a few snow storms come through. They have each dumped a decent amount of snow. It is expected to start snowing again around 11:00 tonight. That is right kids, our weather people are so good that they can predict the time of the snowfall. It makes me laugh because they are fairly accurate, I think it is the lack of mountains that helps. Anyway, Tanner and Kate (really just Tanner) wanted to go out in the snow, so we pulled out all of our snow gear and went out. It was fun. And cold. As it turned out, through all of my careful packing, I only packed one of Kate's gloves, so she had to wear mine. Not to worry, we have since found replacement gloves.

Tanner loves to build "ice sculptures" in the snow. This is his tunnel through the mountain "ice sculpture".

"It goes all the way through, see?"

He was so proud, as was I...

I am glad that my children enjoy the snow, because it is here to stay. But I am not complaining, it is just getting me excited for Christmas, and with Christmas, we get to go home and go skiing, see family, and open presents. Probably in that order... just kidding Nana and Grandma, we will come and see you long enough to drop the kids off! Wink. Wink.

The End

Do you see what I see?

I have felt, for some time now, that Kate and Bill Murray share a common feature:

Her hair is seriously out of control serveral times a day. I love the little wings she gets over her ears. And I also love "What About Bob?".