The First Snow

It's been hellishly cold here at best hitting the high 30s for awhile. So in some ways when the first snow came this week, it was a refreshing change. It took about 30 minutes of sweating, huffing, and cajoling to bundle everyone up in snowsuits and get them out the door. We played for over an hour with the sleds, shoveled, and built a miniature snowman. I got a good workout pulling the sleds (technically, toboggans).

Let's shovel. (Mittens are a accursed things. All they do are get in the way, then they fall off)

Arden: Mama, pull this thing already!

Our teeny snowman had a lazy eye.

And a lazy head. (His head kept falling off.)

Can I eat this stuff?!!

Ahhh, teamwork. Too bad it is only a prelude to a brawl (or a bawl) ;-)

And this is what our pile of snowgear looks like when we come in.

Oh this is ours too

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The girls like to do art projects. So I decided to play a game called "whose hands are the messiest?"

Clean...

Clean...

And we have a winner!

The girls are really enjoying their dad a lot (and vice versa).

We HAD to open one present tonight for 2 reasons. First, dinner wasn't quite ready and the kids were starving. (Chris made Rosemary's spareribs for dinner) Second, we received so many presents with more to come from Santa that they will be barely able to open all their presents tomorrow. I predict that they will lose interest after the first 4-5 presents...Alana chose Grandma Rose's present to open, so to keep things "even" the twins also opened their presents from Grandma Rose.

The following clip is so funny and cute. This highlights the fun side of being twins and being the mom of twins.