Merry Christmas!

Love the look of a tree with presents under it...but doesn't last long in this house! Our brood is sitting around this tree...ready to attack!

As you can see from the series of photos that follow everyone was delighted with their gifts!

There was only one downer this Christmas...Britton wasn't able to come up and be with us. We had one heck of a blizzard! It was so bad that Greyhound cancelled all travel from Chicago upward! See the photos below.
Now that's some SNOW!

It took us a while to dig out of this one! We had alot of snow drifts. Some places were as deep as 4 feet. Our mail box was covered over! But we only had about 12 inches fall! Only? Shoot for this

southern girl this is alot! And guess what? More is to come! Yep more snow tonight, tomorrow and Thursday! All I can say is WOW...it's wonderful to finally have a White Christmas!

Here's a bunch of fun photos we've taken the last couple of days!

Isn't that the biggest snowball fight you've ever seen! ha ha Greg and I made the kids go outside to help shovel snow. I wanted a snowman and this is what I got. By the time I went to get my camera Tess and Seth gave up and went back inside! Little boogers!

Oh almost forgot these photos...this was an early Christmas present. Rock Band and XBox 360! Don't they look happy? ROCK ON!

Learning how to play the game!

Getting better!

Rockin' out now! yeah baby!

One last photo of Lily with her goodies from her stocking!

Well that's about it from us! We hope all of you had a Merry Christmas! And a very blessed New Year's!

BeAuTIfuL WinTeR MoRnINg!

Wow! Isn't this a Beautiful Sky? What a great thing to wake up to. We've had alot of snowy days here in Wisconsin and I love it! Snow is something I've always loved as a kid but living in southern Georgia we rarely got any. Every Christmas I'd pray for snow. Finally HE answered my prayers! Even if it's some 30 years later! :o)

We have 2 Christmas Trees this year...and look I have a fireplace burning in the background! Yeah...another dream come true. And there's my cute lil' elf helping her Mom decorate. Don't know whether she helps or hinders...but it sure is cute seeing her enjoying the beauty of Christmas.

This is our other Tree...it's out in the Sun Room. Better photo below...Look at all that lovely snow. I finally learned how to take a photo indoors and capture the scenery outdoors through windows. Trail and error...took tons of photos and capture this.

Look how blue the Sky is! Love Blue Sky against white snow...so crisp and clean looking!

Greg bought the pretty Poinsettia's. Their real and I hope they last a long time! The temp in the sunroom is just right for them to survive.

Tess outside playing in the snow! She's growing up too fast andwith ever pasting year looks more and more like her big sis, Britton . She loves the snow too!

Lily is another story...she really likes the snow but here she doesn't have on her gloves and her hands are freezing.She decided to go out on her own when I was putting away things in the garage. She's staring to cry cause she realizes how cold the white fluffy stuff really is. Beren and Leia sliding down the driveway with Lily girl! Now this is much better and alot funnier! She's properly covered from head to toe. Beren was the sweetest big brother to Lily. He kept grabbing her to sliding down the slope over and over again...he didn't notice how red her little face was. I tried to take her in and he just wanted to keep on playing with her. I couldn't stand seeing her face red like that...just had to take her back inside. She had a ball with them!
While the kids played Greg had to use the snow blower to clear a path so we could back our cars out of the driveway. As he says...if I'm not mowing, I'm blowing! hee hee Summer time the grass needs cutting twice a week and now he's had to blow snow 3 times already and it's not Winter yet! ha ha
Tess on her 9th Birthday...just love this cake! How cute is that...a snowman enjoying the snow too!
Seth right after a much needed haircut. Dad cut it and did a great job! Seth is such a cool guy!

Look who's learning to play the guitar! Little does he know that Dad got him a Guitar Hero game for Christmas and a Classical guitar with DVD lessons. Can't wait to see if he canlearn this way. Shoot I might take up the guitar myself!

Me, Leia and Lily playing around taking photos!

Leia on her 15th Birthday. Leia and I spent the day shopping and when we came home Greg had this very colorful cake ready for her.

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Hope you enjoyed the photos and the happenings of the last 2 months. We had a great Thanksgiving and soon to have an even better Christmas. Have most of my shopping done and the last thing will be grocery shopping. Britton is coming up to visit and plans to cook us a gourmet meal. I can't wait. I've missed her a lot and I can't wait to have someone else do the cooking for a change! Yeah! Hope you all have a Merry Merry Christmas!