SNOW!!!!!

We heard on the news last night that we have 12 more inches of snow then we did last year on this date. We don't remember having this much snow at one time in years. The girls love sledding and we are really enjoying it. Every morning that we get up and it's snowing again we all get excited. I do have to say I think a small reason why we are all enjoying the snow so much this year is that I am not pregnant and that we don't have a small baby. Which I am pretty sure is the first time since we have been married!

Happy Bithday Timothy!!!
We miss you and can't wait to see you !
You are getting so BIG.
We all hope you had a great birthday .
Love you lots.

A few things we did leading up to Christmas.

The girls having fun with some uncles.

The Tiltons, Tiltons and Hathaways took a trip to Cabelas out in the Valley. Everyone had a lot of fun

Victoria and Bella thought the fish were scary, we have no idea why.

Victoria playing with daddy's glasses.

Victoria and Bella goofing off when they were suppose to be getting ready for a Christmas party. Girls will be girls.

Arayah went Christmas shopping with just Ryan and I . She thought she was hot stuff being able to walk around. The only bad part was she did not care if she lost sight of us. One time she even ran behind the return counter thankfully the employees thought she was cute. I had more fun following her around then I did shopping.

Hey, can we get this guys.

Electronics are so boring, time to move on!

We had so fun making our first snow angel. You can't see it in the picture but she has pretty wings.

Yes, that's Victoria's little head popping out.

We took a dinner boat to the "north pole". It was fun except that someone told us we should ride outside because we would have a much better view. We only lasted outside for half the trip and after we all got inside we realized we had froze ourselves and our children for nothing because the view inside was much better.

Travis, Autumn and some of the kids on the boat.

A Trip To The Mall

We went to the mall a few weeks ago and had a total blast. In fact we had so much fun that we were late for ballet. We just walked around and window shopped. We let the girls play on the toys and as you can tell they had a lot of fun. At one point a little boy who was probably a year older then Arayah became obsessed with her. He followed her around hugging, pulling on her shirt, holding her hand and trying to lead her around. Arayah dealt with it really well and didn't even seem to mind when he was pulling on her shirt. We tried to discourage him from kissing her several times ( mainly for the germ factor). When it was time for the little boy ( Aiden) to go his mom came over and grabbed his hand, he started pulling and crying and reaching for Arayah at one point he got free ran over to Arayah and pinched one cheek and scratched the other to the point of bleeding. The parents apologized and said, they had no idea what had gotten into him. After Arayah was feeling better and off playing again, Ryan said, " I can't believe it's started already".

Arayah feels like she has the weight of uh.... tree on her shoulders.

Cute little Christmas Elf's.

The girls love playing with shaving cream but, this time they went a little overboard. They smelled really good though.

Arayah played with these toys for an hour all by herself. Yay!

Sweetness!

Arayah the punk.

Gingerbread House ???

Besides running to the store and getting there and then realizing he didn't have his wallet, running home to grab that and then going back to the store and returning home just to find out Jamie and I remembered some more things we needed. This pic of Ryan holding the knife is the only part he was interested in.

P.S. Jamie ended up going back to the store again later in her pajamas and my slippers, frosting covered and all.

This is what happens to people who fall a sleep around Jamie and Taneisha while they are on a sugar high!

It took me two and half hours the next morning to clean the mess up.

It all started a long, long, long time ago ( or Sept. 2007) . When two close friends stood staring at the gingerbread house display at the county fair. They thought to themselves and each other, "We should make a gingerbread house this year they look like so much fun, and of course we could make ours look much nicer". Now you can see where there downfall began.

Well, four trips to the store, plenty of mistakes , several Christmas songs and a couple Christmas movies later we decided to quit for the night or I should say morning seeing as it was 3:30a.m. . I finished the next day and have to say that it was a total blast, mistakes and all. Of course they pretty much look crappy and we will both have a new found appreciation for the gingerbread house display. But it was totally worth all the laughs and meltdowns we had. We are already planning our next adventure

Let it Snow, Let it Snow!!

These look a lot darker then they did on my camera and you can't tell it was snowing really hard when I took them. Oh, well they still turned out ok.