Merry Christmas!

Every year we make a GIANT batch of sugar cookies for Christmas. I love the cookies and so does the whole family and although it is a tradition we will never give up... I am now realizing I enjoyed this a lot more when I was a child and had less responsibility in it.

Ok, this is something we have done since I was a kid. We all would wait down stairs in the basement where we slept and wait for my parents upstairs to call for us to come up to see if Santa came or not. We would all wait so patiently(as patient as kids can be) until we got the go ahead.

Well now the kids bedrooms are on the same floor as ours and so they have to run from their rooms to ours with out sneaking a peak down stairs until we go down stairs to see if Santa came. Here are the kids after we called them down, trying to see if it is so...

And here they are after they see that Santa really did come. So cute. We didn't have a plentiful Christmas this year, but to see the look on the kids faces is always worth a million bucks. I love these silly kids!! So I hope everyone had a good Christmas, and a Happy New Year to ya.!

Snow Days

Carson loves to shovel the snow, yesterday I think he went out 7 times to shovel. I guess having it snow all day long for 2 days worked out pretty good for the little guy!! He is a good helper, even though there are some days he makes me want to punch him, he is really a good little boy deep down inside.

Mack wants to help too, but his way of helping is chasing the shovel till it hits him in the face and then he runs after it again. It really slows down the process.

Lincoln wanted to clean off the trampoline, he did a pretty good job. When I looked out to see how it was going, I saw he was scooping the snow up and dumping it on his head. Huh, that was fun I guess.

Maycee and Lincoln stayed out a little longer and they made this very cool "snow fort". It looks a little like a casket, but they were so proud of it. They wanted to have me take lots of pictures of it for them.

They even put the big blue sled in front of it because it kept them warm in there, they are practicing to be on survivor man or something.

Maycee is very photogenic. If she wants you to, she will sit there for beautiful photos. She is a good girl. Oh, and those are the new glasses she got for the school year. She loves them even though they are not the ones I liked the best.:)

That's Better!

BEFORE......

AFTER!!

Maycee got the cutest hair cut a little while ago. Her hair was getting so long and the whole time it was growing out she wanted it cut. So I finally gave in, I just wanted to see what it looked like when it was long. It does look so much cuter short, it looks so healthy and shiny. So Thank You to Grandma Campbell who took on this task with a smile and made Maycee look so cute!!!

Let it snow...

The kids went outside to play the other day when we got some snow, and one of the boys came in and said, "hey come look what we did on the tramp" and I expected them to have taken their little red shovel and gotten all of the snow off. No, I was wrong, they rolled up all the snow and made it into this GIANT snowball, in about 2 minutes...

They rolled it off and made it into a great big snowman that was about 10 feet tall, I thought I had a picture of it but I guess not. It was awesome. They had lots of fun putting it together and then the next day they had more fun knocking it down.