More Christmas Pics

We had a fabulous Christmas spending lots of time with the Rust side. There was plenty of playing, eating, watching tv & more eating. The boys received some wonderful gifts and they gave me a great one today---taking an afternoon nap at the same time. I did the housework that needed to be done and then finished reading my book. Love it! Notice how Nathan is sitting on his toy...he seems to think that it's a chair nestled in its box. Very funny! Hope that all of you had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to 2011!!

More Holiday Fun

Our family has enjoyed a week off of work full of playing outside with our neighbors, baking, singing Christmas songs, visiting the trains downtown & going to the Festival of Lights at the zoo.

I just had to include the pic of Noah & Nathan sitting in each other's car seats (my car was getting a few much needed repairs-thanks Jeremy!!!-and the seats were in the house for a few days). Oh and look! We got our chimney cleaned & inspected so we had our first fire in the fireplace!

It'll be time for church and presents & Wendy's Christmas Eve dinner soon enough (that's a whole separate story about why my family eats Wendy's for Christmas Eve every year) and tomorrow is Christmas!

More pictures to come in a few days!

Some Holiday Fun!

We've had a lot of fun the past week or so getting ready for Christmas and our 2 weeks off. We've had 2 small snowfalls before today and you can see Noah sledding on the last picture. It snowed quite a bit today and we're off school so I'm sure we'll have more snow pictures soon. It looks like we might have a white Christmas...not sure that it'll be warm enough for long enough to melt it all. That would be fabulous, we have very few of them.

We went to the Holiday Party for my mom's group last weekend and after being scared of Santa for a little bit, Noah agreed to stand next to him and talk. and boy did he talk. We had to stop him after a few minutes. Nathan, on the other hand, wasn't too happy to see Santa, as this picture shows.

Noah was a helper for our Christmas tree lights and I couldn't help myself with this great bathtub picture. Oh, I forgot to mention that all of the ornaments are up at the top of the tree. The few that I've left at the bottom within Nathan's reach are continually removed so they've all migrated higher up.

More will be coming soon. Maybe another video or two.

Enjoy the snow if you have it and the sun if you have that!

Winter Wonderland

What a beautiful December day! We woke up at 8 am to Noah bursting into our room to tell us that there was snow on the ground (not much at that point but we probably got 3 inches by the end) THIS is the kind of snow that I love! It's 32 degrees so the snow is wet and sticks to the grass but not the roads!!! And because it was warm (yes, I know you southerners can't imagine that 32 degrees can feel warm but after the cold of Toledo last weekend, 32 degrees is rather pleasant!) we got to enjoy a bit of the snow!

We had a wonderful day today. Getting the car cleaned off was a bit of work with 2 small boys, so a little playing in the snow happened then as well. We were off to Aunt Chelsea's family farm to get a Christmas tree. When we got back with a beautiful tree, the boys played outside with Ben & Will from up the street (who also go to Trent) and they had a blast making a snow robot.

We tried to upload a few videos. See if you can see them.