Treasuring the moment

Tonight Sarah has her first Father-Daughter Dance with her Daisy Scout Troop. Being the sap that I am, I was fighting tears HARD as we put on the fancy dress, sparkly shoes and yes (sigh) the light pink lip gloss. Wasn't she just a bald headed baby last year? Such a special night for her and Adam. :)

A picture is worth 1,000 words

ICE STORM 2011: This sums it up PERFECTLY!

Unfortunately all our "fun" snow quickly turned to a solid sheet of ice several inches thick so we've all had a bit of cabin fever. Walking to the neighbors is even a challenge because all the streets and sidewalks are like one big ice rink. We're on our 4th day of being stuck inside so hopefully the weather reports are correct and we start thawing out tomorrow. Until then. we'll try to all stay sane and play Pollyanna Whittier's Glad game.

I am glad that the power did not go off!

AMEN!

More Snow Pics

SNOW DAY!!!

Well, we got the snow we were all hoping for. We ended up with 5-6 inches here at our house. It was coming down like a blizzard last night before we went to bed and sometime this morning it began to turn to freezing rain. It is starting to sleet right now so the end result is going to be nasty but at least we were able to get out and play in the snow for a little while this morning. I forgot just how beautiful a good snowfall is. Everything is so peaceful and the only sounds you are hearing are the giggles from the neighborhood children sledding. So thankful for this beautiful snow and even more thankful for a wonderful neighborhood full of children!

Ready to make some snow cream!

Happy New Year 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

We had so much to be thankful for in 2010 and are looking forward to another great year!

2011 Here we come!!

We wish you a Merry Christmas !!!

Much love,

Adam, Kasey, Sarah and Ansley

2010

Adventures of Joy and Noel: Part 6

The elfcapades have continued and we have all had so much fun with Joy and Noel.

One night I thought I heard something downstairs. The next morning we saw that the elves had been tubing all throughout the house while we were sleeping.

We went and spent a couple of days at Papa's house this week and took Joy and Noel. Papa didn't have any Christmas decorations so the elves took the liberty of decorating Papa's deer head with a Santa hat and a red ribbon nose! They must have been missing their friend Rudolph.

This morning we woke up and found that the elves left us stuff to make Christmas cookies with. The girls and I had so much fun baking and decorating cookies.

This afternoon we found that Joy and Noel had left some pre-Christmas goodies for the girls in their stockings.

On their very last night Joy and Noel enjoyed reading the stories in our Jesse Tree advent calendar. They are always reminding us that Jesus is the reason we celebrate Christmas so I'm sure they loved reading about the Christmas story.

Tonight as we leave cookies and Coca-Cola for Santa we say goodbye to our elf friends Joy and Noel. Like last year, Santa will pick them up when he delivers our toys and they will return with him to the North Pole. We have had a fun filled month and look forward to their return next year. We love you Joy and Noel!!