This is the first thing Ryley did when she woke up at Grandma's house and saw how much snow there was! Face first. She woke me up at 6am to help her find the snow clothes... even though we didn't get in to my mom and dad's house until 2am because of the crazy blizzard making us drive 25 mph the last 60 miles.
Then we celebrated my brother's Jared's 23rd birthday
Ammon helped make the cake. It's the center of the Mayan Calendar. Significant because the Mayan calendar ended on Jared's birthday.
Look how long Ryley's tongue is!!
Evelyn played Mary in the Christmas pageant. She played the part perfectly.
Christmas morning. Evelyn looks kinda grumpy. It's cause she was.
Can you see the pain on Jensen's face. Just let me open the presents!! Hurry and take the picture!!
Break out the toys! Can't wait to play with them all!
The day after Christmas, when we were supposed to go drive to D.C. for Jake and Jenny's sealing, we woke up to a crazy ice storm. There was a sheet of ice over everything. They made it to the temple, but me and the kids ended up turning around after 2 hours in the car and making little progress. The roads were so bad. It took them 6 1/2 hours to get there! The kids had fun playing with the ice chunks though.
You'd be surprised how creative you can be with ice. It could be a serving platter, or karate chop board.
We did LOTS of sledding every day. It's good for you. It was especially fast after the ice.
This is what Evy's face looked like every time we went down. "Let's do that again!"
We played games every night at least until midnight. This is me and Ammon giving the smack down on Cribbage. That's the smack down sign in case you are wondering what I'm doing.
These are the losers. Dad and Jake
The whole week we had to come up with new and creative ways to get Evelyn to take her medicine for the raging double ear infection she developed just in time for Christmas. She can be very stubborn. Each method only worked once. The headphones seem to be working here.
More Snow! MORE MORE MORE! We just can't get enough!
Hmm. What to do with all this snow? Build an igloo of course! A MEGA igloo!
Ryley's idea.
Of course, the kids wanted to sleep in it. And they did.
Ammon... checking to see if they're frozen to death yet.
In the morning Ryley and Jensen said it was the warmest, coziest night of sleep they'd ever had.
And then we had to drive back to Baltimore. Boo. No snow here. Boring.
3 comments:
Aren't you afraid the kids would get eaten by bears or a wolverine? Olivia has the same freakishly long tongue like Ryley. She could audition for KISS.
Wow. Looks like your kids LOVE the snow. That ice cave looked awesome, but i think it would freak me out sleeping in one. And I loved the Mayan cake.
Wow I have never thought to make a snow cave. I just can't imagine that it would be warm inside. What fun for the kids. That is a lot of snow!
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