Walkin in a Winter Wonderland

We've been having snow on and off since Saturday! Big deal for here, since we're all hills. So Isabel hasn't had school all week, and right now it's still snowing, and doesn't look like it will melt any time soon. Josh is driving back and forth from work with chains on (whoa!) so everything takes longer to do. We're avoiding driving at all. But all the snow makes for some fun play time. Here are some pics of our fun snow sculpting:
We built a fort, which is now even more sturdy thanks to another 3" of snow on top of it

And we built some snowmen (a whole lot bigger and better than Beckett's, lol)


We actually had a different pair of snowmen, but some rowdy teenagers decided to tackle them. Made us really mad, but we just built a new pair instead. I want to see them take these ones down without getting hurt, these ones are now ICE! It warmed up to about 35 degrees and then refroze, so all our creations are here for a while, even after the snow melts.

Merry Christmas Fun

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Here comes Santa Claus :)

I took the kids to see Santa Claus on Saturday and we had the discussion about how the real Santa is so busy getting everything ready for Christmas, so he sends his helpers out to talk to the kids and visit with them. They accepted that explanation easily! I was pleasantly surprised at how easy that was, considering Isabel wondered why there were so many Santas out there. But when we got done with visiting santa, she was convinced that this was NOT a helper, this was the REAL Santa. He had a real beard, and real white hair. So my kids saw the REAL Santa, and all the rest of you got his imitations, lol. Here are the cute pictures we took of them on his lap.





On a whole different topic, here are some funny pictures of when Isabel fell asleep in the car in a really awkward position. She was VERY asleep, never woke up for pictures or when we tried to get her to get up. She has her mouth open, and her teeth resting on the edge of the window ledge, holding the rest of her up.


View from outside the van. This is what everybody on the freeway saw, lol.