Christmas 2009 & (ugh) Snow

This year we got to wake up on Christmas morning with Cassie, Chris, Kobie & Kale. It was fun to have little kids around again. They were surprised about how much was around the tree. When Kale (2 & 1/2 years) walked into the room he said "Oh, for goodness sakes!) Since they have had to sleep on the floor, Santa brought them a set of bunk beds. However, the most fun part of the bunk beds is the "ladder". Imagine that!

We gave Kobie a Bionicle (spelling?) set made by Legos. He loves those things. He can spend quite a while putting them together. We gave Kale a little work bench with tools that make noise. Now he can help Grandpa. He is Grandpa's little helper, as long as he's in a good mood.

Ben & Brittany pleasantly surprised us by coming home for Christmas. It's getting harder & harder for us to get all of them together anymore, so being able to spend time with each one of them was precious. (Cassie & her family is missing in this photo-they needed to go to spend some Christmastime with Chris' family.)

This is looking our our front door. We got most of that snow within the last week. The house you see across the street is the house Eddie & I are trying to buy.

This looking out our back sliding door. Isn't the snow pretty. (I'm sick of it already.) That hill you see is where the kids (big & little) go to sled down. They seem to have a good time, but it's too cold for me. I'll stay inside.

We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. We are excited for 2010. Hopefully we'll be able to do everything we want to do. Hope to see everyone soon.