We finally got snow! I guess mother nature was waiting for the “official” start of winter on December 22nd. Yesterday was beautiful. Warm, sunny, birds chirping, kids on bikes…

Riding bikes on Dec 22nd.

Today, SNOW! Not a ton, but enough for now. :) Enough to get out the boots and shovels, enough to build a (small) snowman, enough to look like a white Christmas. Hopefully enough to survive the high 30’s and mixed sunshine day!

I let the kids open a few presents today. We had a pile from Greg and Kathy, and a pile from Jim and Julie. I was waiting for Christmas but decided they would have more fun with, an appreciate more, the presents if they weren’t all piled up on Christmas morning. I let them pick a few today and the rest tomorrow. Actually, I let them open a few presents IF they behaved well at the grocery store this morning. Can you believe, it was an excellent trip to the store?!? I had two perfect little helpers, sweet and nice in every way. Maybe I should bribe them with Christmas presents more often ;)

Presents, presents, presents!

Lex is VERY excited! He hasn't stopped working on this since he opened the present. He keeps saying "Awesome! This is so cool!" :)

Eve loves her portable easel. She went right to work drawing me pictures and we discussed all the different places she could use it.

"This is the most awesome Lego piece I've ever seen!" he declared.

Eve doesn't smile for the camera much these days, but I sneak pictures of her. She packed up her easel to try taking it with her.

Merry Christmas everyone!!