Christmas Morning!

Bella's wanted everything Princess

Maiza's favorite gifts were spiderman related!

Bella LOVES her new princess gown Uncle Mark got her! She hasn't taken it off since!

Uncle Mark

The gift most requested by Maiza: an $8 "spinner."

Christmas Eve

Finally, two days late, Noy, Lynda and Mark made it in town despite the snow storm. I had a wedding to shoot the next day so they watched the kiddos. GGMom and Lynda took the kids shopping and bought them all kinds of pre-Christmas gifts! It sure was good to have family in town!

Snow, Snow and more snow!

The news said this morning that this snow storm is second to one other in Colorado's history which took place in March 1913. It's really beautiful but we are getting a wee bit of cabin fever. SO, I bundled the girls up and took them outside to play in the sea of snow! They had a blast.

snowball fight!

YUM!

Noy stopped and bought a tube on the way home from work. You know it's a big storm when there is enough snow to tube in your front yard!


This picture gives a good idea of how much snow we have. This is in our front yard after Noy shoveled the sidewalk.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...

Oh wait, I'm not dreaming! Unless we get a major heat wave in the next few days, this stuff isn't going anywhere! Noy and my dad shoveled the driveway and the walks so it's hard to get a good picture of how much snow is in our yard but here's a few snapshots to give you an idea.

We have about 3 feet of snow in our back yard and some drifts are a good 5 feet! It's just beautiful, but we wish it came a day later as we are anxiously awaiting Noy's parents and brother from Florida. Luckly, they aren't one of the 4900 people stranded at Denver International Airport!

Firefighters at our house!

Well Bella made Maiza's day Tuesday!

I was busy cleaning the house getting ready for company when Bella decides, again, to get into things she shouldn't. She found a thermometer in a drawer and somehow drops it on our tile bathroom floor. She calls me in the bathroom to look at all the "silver buttons," also know as mercury. So Noy had me call 911 and the fire department tells me to leave it and they will come pick it up. Could they really send out a fire engine for a little mercury? Sure enough! Within minutes, the big red fire engine arrived with four firefighters (not bad looking, I might add) and I escourted them upstairs to see the mercury. They cleaned it up in about 5 minutes with a wet paper towel and threw it in our garbage can outside.

I'm pretty sure there was nothing technical about the cleanup process that I couldn't have pulled off myself but having the fire fighters here made it much more interesting! Maiza was thrilled!

Thanksgiving Day

I think we found a new tradition for Thanksgiving! Since my parents were visiting my brother in Richmond, we decided to spend Thanksgiving weekend in the beautiful Rocky Mountains! We found a great little condo in Keystone and made ski school reservations for Maiza. She loved it and did great! We took Bella tubing and shopping while Maiza was in ski school. Then, for thanksgiving dinner, we had made reservations at a local restraurant. It was SOOOO good. Like a cruise ship thanksgiving buffet! And the best thing was...I didn't have to wash a single dish!







God has blessed us in so many ways this year and we are thankful for so many things but most of all, we are thankful for Jesus, the giver of all good things!