christmas

kaitlyn and matt thoroughly enjoyed christmas! we had a white chrismtas here and got to have grandma over and go to grandpa's house and see all the aunts, uncles and cousins and go to obachan's house. we got to see papa dale before christmas and will see him again next week. we finally got snow good enough to build a snowman and the kids enjoyed more sledding in the neighbor's yard. kaitlyn likes her tea set and pet shop dolls and matt like those also. matt also loves his hulk hands and punching bag!

december snow

we had many varied stages of snow over the last few days. the kids have taken advantage of it all. we made a slushman two days ago - now the snow is too dry for packing (darn, i bet the skiing is great!). kaitlyn and her friend grace had fun sledding yesterday and matt and kaitlyn went sledding this morning. kaitlyn taught matt how to make snow angels! i got pictures of all the animals (except kitten) in the snow and even one of our house all decorated and snowy!

christmas is coming!

well after multiple attempts (thank goodness for digital cameras) we managed to sort of get a christmas picture. the kids have been enjoying the outdoors even with the chill. (don't let their dress fool you - about 40 degrees). we have the chistmas lights and tree up (with all cat ornaments - live and craft variety) and are enjoying the christmas season. they enjoyed the weyerhauser party - but missed santa in the helicopter. have had two meetings with santa so far this year and aren't too sure how they feel about the jolly old elf but are otherwise happy about christmas!