Snow Day!

(sorry there are a ton of pictures for this but we don't get a lot of snow pictures and they were just too cute not to share)

Friday morning we woke up to this

This is not normal

What is this?

School was cancelled. Wimpy Georgians. So we had Emma to play with Friday and Monday.

Emma and Weston enjoyed sampling snow in the yard

Andrew is more like his parents. He enjoyed the snow for a couple of minutes and then he realized he was cold, wet, and miserable.

and then he was mad. Mad that he was uncomfortable and mad that mom was mocking him with her camera. The kid thinks I'm the paparazzi and is always chasing me away when I take pictures.

He was angry at the snow for covering his big truck and he was disappointed to see it had taken his slide too. Blasted snow, you've ruined my outdoor fun!

Then Weston threw himself on the porch to make snow angels and the other kids followed

Emma didn't think the angels looked as good as she wanted

I love the look in Weston's eye here, careless bliss! He didn't notice how cold it was or how perfectly his angels were formed he was just caught up in the excitement of the moment. Oh to be three!

Andrew has to do everything the big kids do but you can see he was a little uneasy about the idea of throwing himself into the cold stuff.

Then in typical Weston style, he decided to run around and "stomp on the angels."

Okay, no story here, just loved this picture and had to share!

Emma discovered a way to eat the snow without getting her hands cold and wet.

Weston tried Emma's method and did a face plant

And how do you end a snow day? Well with a cup of hot chocolate of course! We were in such good spirits we even let Andrew have a ceramic mug.

And Weston is happy because he gets to pour chocolate down his throat!

Oh happy day!

Texas Adventures

We visited my brother in Texas over the winter break. Another brother from Boston joined us a couple days with his new wife. It was great playing with family and getting to know my new sister-in-law.

One day we went into Fort Worth and saw the Water Gardens which was pretty cool!

The above pic is of us at the bottom of this structure:

Andrew was too little to go down to the bottom so he stayed up with his aunt and little cousin but Weston was busy with something else back at the house with dad.

This is how Weston spent his vacation. Poor kid went through several pairs of clothes and had a long, yucky day.

The next day Emma had some yuckiness descend on her and Andrew wasn't looking great so we took the kids in and all three had strep throat along with with two cousins and my SIL. But some great drugs and my kids were feeling fine for our drive home the next day. But it didn't stop us for enjoying time with family and making great memories. Besides these boys were so excited to get medicine twice a day. Seriously, there were fights over who got their's first.

Christmas

Yeah, Christmas was a couple weeks ago but we've had stuff going on (more posts to come) so here's a few fun Christmas pics and stories for those who missed being with our kids for Christmas this year:

Emma got her bike and here she is modeling her safety gear along with her new slippers, bag, backpack, and socks. Stylin eh? she wore this all morning long. She got training wheels to go with her bike but they wouldn't work for her bike so Jamie's been her training wheels.

Weston is very much in love with all things sweet (he gets it from his mommy). He doesn't care about presents on his birthday he just wants cake. So when asked what he wanted for Christmas he said "candy and a banana." So he got some Mentos in his stocking and opened them immediately and didn't stop until the whole thing was gone. The presents piled up in front of him but he was content to just chew his candy until the very last bite.

The boys got some foam swords but Weston didn't think the smooth, straight-edge sticks looked enough like swords so he bit chunks off his sword until it looked more like a sword.