Thursday, December 31, 2015

A Very Snowy Christmas


A few days before Christmas, we made these awesome contact paper nativity scenes.  I love how they turned out and I think we will make some next year too.  They are still hanging up in our window in our front room.

On Christmas Eve, we always get to open the presents that the elves brought us on the elf chart all month.  They start on December 1st and the kids have to be very patient and wait for 24 whole days to open them. 









 Riley enjoyed the evening in her diaper and after we opened all of the gifts, we got in our pjs and drove around to see Christmas lights.  We got home and went straight to bed. The kids surprised us and slept in until almost 7!  That doesn't happen very often!


 We checked out our stockings and ate some candy and oranges.

 
 Riley loved pulling thing after thing out of her stocking.  She got fishies, teddy grahams, and oranges in her stocking.  They kept her occupied for a good while.

 They each got a new item of clothing.  Zac wore his angry bird shirt for the next 3 days until I made him put it in the dirty clothes bucket.  ha ha.

When we woke up that morning, we looked outside and there was about 6 inches of snow on the ground.  When we were done opening presents and eating breakfast, we all dressed up in our snow clothes and went out to shovel the driveway.  Turns out it was a premature shovel job since we had to go out again later to shovel the other couple of inches that it snowed after we shoveled the first time.  It was fun.  Later in the day we went sledding at a nearby hill my friend told me about.  It was perfect!  They had a big hill and smaller hills for our little kids.  It was tons of fun.

 While Rob was shoveling, he put all of the snow in a big pile so the kids could play on the hill.  It turned out to be really big!

 Sledding!

 Zac loved taking Riley down with him.  She had fun.

 This cutie was hilarious.  Whenever she went down the hill, she would scream "YIKES!!"  

 Sadie and Zac were brave and went down the big hill with Rob while Riley and I waited in the car and Emery played on the playground. She was really brave and I saw her and Zac wipe out a few times, but that didn't slow them down at all. 

 Our cute little cupcake.

 She spent most of the time in this swing.  When I tried to take her out, she would just yell at me.  ha ha

 ON the way home.  Thumbs up from the kids!  We will definitely have to do it again.

 The pile that Rob made was taller than Sadie!

 THis was actually a few days before Christmas.  The kids and Rob built a little fort for them to hid behind while Rob threw snowballs at them.  I thought it was adorable seeing them crouching behind it.

 Sadie sneaking up on Rob to get him right in the bum!

 
Back to Christmas day.  I really enjoy shoveling snow.  It is pretty fun for me.  But when my neighbor came over and helped out with his snowblower during the second shoveling session, it made me consider saving up for one.  :) Those things are efficient!

Such a cutie!

She doesn't last long out in the snow, but she sure is cute!

Sadie laid on her tummy and ate snow for a while.  Ha ha.

Emery is so cute!


And Rob needs a picture too.  ha ha!  He was the best with the kids at the sledding hill.  He would give them a big push so they would go really fast.  He is such a fun dad. 


And this picture is from a week or so before Christmas.  Sadie made this snowman all by herself!  I was really impressed!  I came home from grocery shopping and saw it.  And look how pretty she is. I can't believe how big she is getting!

We are so grateful for the opportunity to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.  It is fun to see the kids learning new things about the birth of our Savior and see their testimonies grow.  I hope we can keep the spirit of Christmas alive in our home all year long. 


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