Snow day!

We had some good snow about a week and a half ago, but it was icy, crunchy, no fun to play in hard snow. It was good for sledding, but not for making snowmen. It rained for a couple days and there was only the smallest trace of snow left in our yard last night. Then this morning, Josh got up and went to his 7:30 church meeting while I got the kids ready to go to church. After he left, it started to snow. We left the house around 8:30 because the roads were starting to build up a lot of snow. By the time we got to church there was about 4". Big, huge, silver dollar sized flakes, and LOTS of them.

Church got shortened to about a half hour, after passing the sacrament they looked out the windows, saw it was still coming down really fast, and had a closing song and prayer. Shortest church ever! By the time we got home, there was 6-7 inches in our yard and it was still snowing. So we played in the snow and built some awesome snowmen. BIG ones.

Josh says this is the "Best snowman I've ever built." It's taller than our roofline and the base is about 5' in diameter.

I love the details that he added. A fence post stabbed through the middle for arms, a snow shovel (I think he'd better get to work on the sidewalk!) he even has gloves, and a traffic cone hat.

He pushed that ball around the yard until he couldn't move it any more. And that's where it stayed.

Snowcones! yum!

This one is Frostina. She's about 6' tall and has fabulous blue curves.

This might be my favorite picture ever!

The girls built this little snowlady all by themselves!

Merry Christmas everybody!

Here are a few fun pictures taken at the ward party :)

Gingerbread houses

We took the kids to the local grocery store this afternoon where they were making free Gingerbread houses out of graham crackers. The three of them each made a house, very different from each other. Can you guess who made which?

Caught red handed...

Anybody wanna take bets on how many browsers a one year old can open up before his mommy notices? (The answer is FORTY-EIGHT!!!!) Whoa... I'm surprised the computer didn't crash.

For Katie...

I saw the pics of Raleigh's marker mischief. I think it's genetic? It's a good thing you caught him or Trenty would be looking like this! I think he was going for an eye makeup look?

Or maybe not. Just tattoos?

But he sure is cute when he's cleaned up! Until he gets to something else...

Being One is Fun!

Yep, you read right. Caleb is one. I made him a really fun cake, we got him all undressed to smash it to bits for the camera, and he was super careful and dainty. He picked off all the KitKat's one by one, and then started on the York Pieces. Finally we just cut the cake and ate it while we watched him slowly work on what was left.

Sporting a shirt from Grandma S.

Eight is Great!

Isabel has reached the ripe old age of eight. Where does the time go? She got baptized in September by her dad. Here she is wearing the dress made by Grandma Sorensen, she was able to actually be baptized in it.

Here she is with Daddy, wearing the dress that I made her.
The fam... what's up with Becca?
Grandma and Grandpa Tracy