Christmas Pictures

  Merry Christmas!

I love  how these turned out. It took a lot of convincing  before the kids would let me take some pictures of them. I had just bought these red frames and thought they would look cute, so we tried them out. The kids had fun making all sorts of silly faces. These were the best of what we took. 

 I love this one of Elizabeth. She looks so pretty and grown up.  

 She is the only one who had fun taking pictures and wanted me to take a lot. 

 Jocelyn did't want pictures taken at all and complained the whole time. 

 I really like the one  bottom of her. 

 Ethen was the hardest to get a picture of. I only ended up with one good one. He couldn't hold it up right or kept moving it around. We finally ended up just hanging it on him so we wasn't touching it. And this picture really says a lot  about him and his personality, so it's perfect.

 Trying to get all three  at the same time was hard. They were sick of pictures and Ethen wouldn't stop moving and Jocelyn complaining.  Elizabeth still the only willing to take pictures. This is as good as it gets. 

At least I have one good one of each individually! 

I went to Wal-mart and made a collage for family Christmas Cards.

 It's nothing fancy, but it works for me and my tiny budget. 

Family should be getting their Christmas cards in the mail in the next few days.

We love you and miss you.

Merry Christmas,

 from us.

Snow day

We finally have some snow. 

We've been wondering when we were going to  get a good amount. We have had a little here and there, an inch or two and then melt away. We are really hope to have a White Christmas.  

It been snowing for the last two days and here we are with about 7 inches! The kids are so excited to have so much snow. I have to admit I am too. The roads are snow packed and  cars are sliding off the roads so we are not going any where if we don't have to.  The snowplow comes around and we get this huge pile at the end of our parking lot. With this much snow it's piled up about 5 feet. It's great for sliding down. I'm just glad we don't have to shovel our walk ways. The guys who came this morning were not very happy to find the snow pile right in our walk way. It made their job a lot harder and longer for them. 

Looks like we will  have another 1 to 3 inches today.  I need to go buy some snow pants so I can get out and play in the snow with the kids.

Reflections winner

Elizabeth entered a drawing for the schools Reflection contest. The theme was hope, dream, inspire. They had several different types of entries: photography, poetry, drawing,  stories, etc.  Each grade had winners in each categories and  also  honorable mentions for each. Elizabeth was their honorable mention in the 3rd grade drawing category.

 Here are all of the other honorable mentions for each of the other categories for 3rd grade.

 She drew a pictures of herself climbing up a very steep mountain and her caption is

 "Doing Things I've Only Dreamed of Doing"

 Good job Elizabeth, We love you!