Winter Wonderland

I wished for snow and boy did we get it!!! This is our beautiful winter wonderland and we LOVE it!
Gotta love my husband... shorts in the snow. I guess being Arizonan doesn't have much of an effect on his blood. I told him we were going to take a family picture in winter gear and he said he wasn't putting pants on. Just to get him to put on a jacket was a challenge. Another example of his craziness is that the other night, he took out the garbage in shorts and bare feet! There was 6 inches of snow on the ground. He is nuts!
My little Lily looks like a pink tick and I love it! This snow suit was an early Christmas presesnt from grandma Mimi and grandpa Bissett. Thank you grandma and grandpa, you are the best!
It has been snowing since Saturday, Decmember 13th and has snowed almost everyday since.
I love to watch the snow fall. It falls so silent and peaceful. I am excited, my friend Nicole sent me a recipe for snow ice cream. I am going to give it a shot today. I can't wait... Thanks Nicole. I miss you!
Vincent LOVES and I mean LOVES the snow. He has played in it everyday. He favorite thing to do is to eat it. This is his friend Jacob and him in the Saturday snow and they had a blast shoveling our driveway. Josh bought him a little snow shovel and was thrilled to see him using it for something productive.
Our neighbor Cory and Josh built a fort in Cory's front yard. Cory has been working on it for a few days and Josh helped a little bit after work one day. Cory will do a layer, then let it ice over and then put another layer. The boys love it! This is a shot of them haveing a snowball fight. Cory was in on the fun as well. Did I mention... I lOVE OUR NEIGHBORS!
Yes... they were aiming at me. AHHHHHHHHH!
I love the big snow ball in mid air.
I think Vincent looks so cute in his snow suit!

We finally feel like it is Christmas. I enjoy driving around and looking at the trees and ground covered in snow. It is so beautiful. Especially the mountains. No more turning on the air-conditioner when I need to go somewhere! Oh and putting snowflake decorations on my window, drinking hot chocolate, and wearing winter clothes in the winter actually make sense.

We are so ready for Christmas and have been since the day after Thankgiving. I love the holidays and the build up of Christmas.

The Christmas elves have already come and left early Christmas presents for Vincent and the neighbor boys. Some presents you have to wait till Christmas and other you can open early. Vincent has gotten a rubics cube, a box of practical jokes, yo yo, a christmas coloring book and some light up tops. The elves are tricky little buggers and hide them in silly places like, shoes, the bean bag in the attic, in the movie drawer or cereal cupboard. Vincent has had fun waking up every morning looking around to see if they came. Even Lily got an early present.

Vincent also got a certified, real letter in the mail from the REAL Santa! That was awesome!


Lily got one too! These letters are really cool because they are not the same. They are personalized for each child.
Another fun part of Christmas is making cookies with my dad. Lucky for us, he made a special trip just for the occassion! Mimi came too.
We were in the kitchen from 9 in the morning until 6 at night. We made so many cookies it was ridiculous. My neighbors loved us though. We even gave some to Peter, the best mail man ever!
Vincent had fun helping.
His favorite part of course was frosting the sugar cookies! Unfortunately, I didn't take a picture of that because I too was up to my earlobes in frosting.

While we were making cookies we were listening to Christmas music and watching the snow just pour down; it was so picture perfect. It couldn't have been any better if we ordered it that way. Mimi braved the snow and went shopping for the kids. When she got home she relaxed and watched Christmas movies with Vincent. She tried running the remote which didn't go so well. Hence, another great quote from Vincent:

"You broke it Mimi. Now I'LL have to fix it!"

Thank you dad and Mimi for coming to see us. We had a wonderful time and it wouldn't be a Chistmas without making cookies.
So far, we are enjoying a real, snowy winter. I am very much looking forward to Christmas and getting more visitors. Next to come, Aunt Lacy and Uncle Larry and then, Aunt Lindsay! We can't wait.

Merry Christmas everybody!