Snow day

The kids have been wanting snow for 2 weeks now and today they got there wish....the girls built the cutest snowman....

Christmas 2009

Decorating Gingerbread men.....

Opening gifts.....

The girls dipping pretzels....

Landon cutting out some wooden ornaments....

Christmas Eve 2009

Christmas Eve we opened our pj's.....had hot cocoa.....watched the movie Santa Buddies....


Michael and the kitty relaxing.....

Braxton taking a catnap....

A Celebration of Poets

We received the book today that published Landon's poem, very exciting. It is a pretty good sized book and he even gets his own page because he was one of the top poems. Horray for Landon.

This is his poem:

Seasons

An extremely cold winter night

While the crystal snowflakes take flight

Walking to snow drifts all in white

Four changing seasons bring new sights

Hearing birds sing and see them fly

With the other things in the sky

Having fun with friends flying kites

Four changing seasons bring new sights

Another very hot summer day

Possibly seeing a blue jay

Hearing crickets all through the warm night

Four changing seasons bring new sights

Colored leaves falling on the ground

On top of the leaf-covered mound

Owls hooting through the spooky night

Four changing seasons bring new sights

Nutmeg

Nutmegs new favorite place to relax.

Getting our Christmas tree

This past Saturday we went to our favorite place to get a tree, Christmas Mountain in Scappoose Oregon. We have fun there, free hot cocoa and spiced cider, they have the prettiest trees.

Madison

Madison made the cutest Christmas house out of paper.

Thanksgiving

Having some fun playing stick the pilgrim hat on the turkey.