I just realized that I never posted Christmas last year! So I don't make that mistake again, I thought I'd share it right now. :)
This last weekend, we had a snowstorm. This prevented us from going to church (we go into the Cities about 40 minutes away), so we decided to celebrate Christmas. We are never home ON Christmas since we are either at the ranch with Mark's family or in Wabasha with my family. Sooo we decided this year to make a new tradition: after December 10th if we get a significant amount of snow, we'll celebrate our Christmas. Well, to do this, I "quick" trip to the store to get some of our normal "Christmasy" food and pick up the stocking stuffers as that was the only shopping I had left. :)
Here's my trip to the store:
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| The Lake |
On the way home was worse. I didn't take too many pictures because it had gotten a little slipperier and I couldn't see as far ahead of me. Craziness.
Opening presents
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| Figured I should take a picture to prove I was there, too :) |
Playing in the snow
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| The flash kept bouncing off the snow... it wasn't as dark as it looks in these pictures. |
I turned off the flash but it was having a hard time focusing, but this is a better picture of how it was out.
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| Aw my cute family. Bodie was really crabby so he went back inside and played leapster. :) |
It was just so pretty.
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| toward the lake |
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| Bodie with his new cowboy hat or "cowboy" as he calls it. |
New jammies
We watched a couple Christmas movies "How the Grinch stole Christmas," "Frosty the Snowman," and "Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer" throughout the day intermingled with playing with our new stuff. As a family, we bought each of us a nerf gun, so after we came in and ate supper, we opened that last present (they were all in a big box). Then we ran around "nerfed" it up. It was soooo much fun. And out of 105 bullets, we are only missing four!
We plan on having another war tonight. :)
We have two more Christmases and Sutton's birthday, so it's nice to spread them out. :)
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
