Dreaming of a white Christmas...

We started the day with rain on Christmas, but by afternoon it had turned to big, fluffy snowflakes. We ended up with about three inches of snow!  What a beautiful surprise...

Merry Christmas!

One the morning of Christmas Eve, Santa put one present under the tree for each of the kids and Gage opened his when he woke at the crack of dawn. Savannah woke up later, came into the kitchen pouting and said "Santa only brought us ONE present".  Poor thing was so disappointed. But, we explained that it wasn't Christmas, but Santa left one present for a special surprise this morning.  Christmas morning she woke up, took a look under the tree, realized that she had hit the jackpot and ran around screaming for everyone to get out of bed and LOOK!  Although it was nice to be home at Christmas, we all missed our families....  Savannah's favorite was a big Belle princess castle and Gage's favorite is a tie between a little t-ball baseball toy, tools, and a pound-a-peg. As I post this, he is pounding Smidge's paw with a plastic hammer :-)

Counting the days to Christmas!

Our trees are up. The one upstairs has no ornaments on the bottom two feet. The one downstairs only has ornaments on the bottom 3 feet (that is Savannah's tree). Smidge is going crazy in the tree. Last year's gingerbread house decorating ended in a temper tantrum and candy being thrown across the kitchen with Grammy. This year's gingerbread decorating went muuuchhh smoother, thankfully!

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Lifting weights and sitting amidst boxes of beer...could these children possibly belong to Adam?

Sweet home Alabama??

We had a chance to do some nice things while in 'bama...like the children's museum (where Gage would NOT leave the little farm truck that had a gear shift and a real old radio in the dashboard to play with), Dreamland BBQ for ribs (which Gage LOVED while Savannah ate only white bread) and a neighborhood Christmas stroll. Santa brought  the kids presents (how did he KNOW we were going to be there??) during the stroll and we had a chance to take a horse and carriage ride while we sang Christmas carols. Brrrrr....