LUVIN' me some winter!

Finals over.... TIME TO CELEBRATE! And that is what we did! We spent the weekend at the ol' cabin with some good old friends.  We had a wonderful time with them relaxing, EATING, playing in the snow, talking and laughing, playing games, EATING, and simply enjoying ourselves to the fullest. We were missing a few... hope you can make it next time! To the Merrells and the Langfords- THANKS FOR COMING! Hope our craziness doesn't scare you into never coming with us again! : )

The snow was great! Adelia had her first experience in it and I think she'll be a fan like her big sis! We did however, put the poor girl right to sleep! Speaking of Miss Adelia, she turned 6 months old on Sunday! WOOOOOOW! She's such a joy in our lives. She's starting to sit up by herself and it's so fun! Crawling can't be too far off either.

Sunday morning we awoke to no power (yes we were at a cabin but we're use to having power there --- lots of it!) so we empravized with the wet hair and sent Luke down to the parking lot to warm up the car and clean off the 10 inches or so of snow.  By the time he did that, refilled the wood pile, and got ready for church we loaded up in the snowcat (thank goodness for that!!!) and hauled ourselves off to church. By the time we finally reached it, we found locked doors... the power must have been off there too. So we hauled ourselves back to the cabin and had our own "church."  Then we watched it snow all afternoon... hoping that by the time we had to leave the roads would be plowed more.  Luckily they were and we all made it home safe and sound!

I love this time of year.... there are so many fun things to do (inside and out)  Luke isn't getting to work full-time during the break which means less money... but more time to spend together! Yesterday we took the girls to see the BIG GUY!  Tianna was surprisingly shy.  Adelia just smiled at him and wouldn't let go of his beard.  Tianna is making it easy for him to please her.  All she said she wanted are "crayons and paper".  I think Santa will be able to pull that one off!

  

Last night for FHE we made our own little gingerbread house.  What could be more fun than the holidays?! 

As promised, here are the pictures of our house and tree!! As usual, they look better in person than on camera.  We got our tree from Scofield this year and have again used the Peacock theme.  It's fun having a real tree again-- especially one so big it has to go on the landing!

 

To explain the basket.... for FHE 2 weeks ago we talked about baby Jesus and Him needing a soft bed. So when Tianna is a good girl she gets to put "straw" er rafia in a basket for him.  It works really well.... when we remember to do it! I like it better than saying "Because Santa's watching...." I still do it, but I'd much rather her want to please the Savior than just get presents from Santa.  

Well... gotta go clean the kitchen floor for my upcoming COOKIE EXCHANGE PARTY on Thursday! So excited!!