Winter Wonderland

We finally got our snow! It is so beautiful, but I don't know if it's ever going to stop. At 2:30 today, B and I went out and shoveled the driveway while the girls napped. Good thing it is dry snow, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to shovel the massive amounts! B was a good help for a few minutes, then he wanted to play and play. Who can blame him? While I kept shoveling he rolled in the snow, made snow castles (with our sand toys) and threw snow balls at me. While I was working away he said, "Mom, don't you know how to have any fun?" I have to admit I was a little offended and felt very old. After I finally finished, probably at least 30 minutes later, we went sledding in the backyard. It was so fun! B had a blast and couldn't stop laughing. We finally had to go in because he wasn't wearing his snow pants and his little legs were bright red.

Future snow boarder?

After this ride we went in for hot chocolate. Maybe I will try to brave it and take the girls out tomorrow morning.... or I may wait for Kent to get back into town. Who knows what could happen with three little kids in the snow? Plus, I'm pretty sure it will take longer to get all their snow gear on than we will actually be able to play.

A Lil' bit of bakin'

Big girls coloring like their big brother, Dani loves getting away with this!

Kent is out of town, so I decided to break up the same old routine last night and do a little baking. What a fabulous idea! All the kids loved it, it was a little bit of an adventure. B had to be in charge of course, but the girls REALLY wanted the bowl too.

What do you think? Too many spoons in the pot?

Danielle did and excellent job of making a trail all over the counter with the batter. She thought it was wonderful! Ellie spilled some dry powder on the counter and thought she would clean it up for me. She really is sweet and tries to help, but this consisted of taking a wash cloth and wiping all of it onto the floor. (I wonder where she's seen that before).

All in all everything turned out well. I didn't have the energy to clean up all the bowls etc... last night, so I tackled cleaning the kitchen this morning. Plus, we all enjoyed our lemon poppy seed bread for breakfast! Weight Watchers seems to be slowly sliding away..... regroup after the holidays??

Brayden's Program

Yesterday was Brayden's Christmas program at school. It was wonderful! I thought for sure he would just stand there and not sing. Everytime I work in his class, he just watches, and he didn't want to practice his songs at home. I was so surprised when he sang all the words AND did all the motions! All of the kids were so cute!

I sat down before they were lined up, so I didn't have the best angle to see my boy.

The best part was the last song. Ms. Jenny taught all the kids how to sign the entire song, with real sign language! Most of the moms had tears in their eyes, it was pretty incredible!

My SIL watched the girls and I took my niece and nephew with me. Brayden was thrilled to see his cousins! Grandma Phillips and Grandpa Chris were there too! I know he felt very special.

When we got home, he was busting at the seams! He wanted to open the gift he made me right away! It is too cute, a little sock snowman, we put it in a safe spot so his sisters can't reach it.