Let It Snow!

We've had a few pretty fun days here lately. It actually snowed in Atlanta! While Quinn went to school yesterday, Mommy and I stayed in our pj's all day and when the snow started around lunchtime, we checked out our deck.

It was just starting to come down. I said, "It's white!" This was my first snow. I was excited about it.

By the time Quinn came home from school there was way more snow on the ground and we went out to play in it.

It was too powdery to make good snowballs and not really deep enough to make snow angels, but we gave it our all. 

I was just happy to be there!

Then on top of that, I discovered that I could dig in it and I was happy as a clam. I'm a big fan of digging.

Our big dream was to make a snowman. We worked really really hard to make this snowman (Mommy may have worked the hardest). He's pretty cool, right? I got the raisins for his eyes and mouth and since we didn't have any carrots, Quinn had the great idea of using a tomato. Pretty impressive...

until you see how big he actually was. But hey, it took all the snow we had!

More digging...

And then we went inside for hot chocolate!

Mommy's favorite part of any cold day.

So today Quinn had no school and it's a pretty good thing since the roads mostly looked like this- a dusting of snow over a sheet of ice. Not good for driving, but pretty good for playing.

Our neighbors were all out hanging in the snow. Nobody stayed out for long, though. It was really cold.

And we tried really hard to have a snowball fight, but the snow just wasn't cooperating.

 I was just happy to dig.

Stay warm, y'all!

This Christmas

Another Christmas has come and gone...

And it was awesome! 

Before we left Georgia, we got decked out in our Christmas pajamas and drove around to look at the Christmas lights. 

Back in November, we visited Santa in South Carolina. Since I understood what was going on and that Santa would bring me presents, I had a really nice visit. I asked him for an Elmo book and something from Jake and the pirates.

When Quinn saw Santa he asked for Lego Ninjago and some games. Later, he wrote this letter. It says "Dear Santa, I forgot to tell you I want Battleship and I was a good boy. To Santa. From Quinn."

This week we packed up and headed for a week with the family in Virginia. First we went to Grandma Pam's and Grandpa Steve's house. Cousin Cormack was there and all our uncles (and Aunt Elissha, we were only missing Aunt Olivia). We made gingerbread houses. I've been talking about making gingerbread houses at Grandma's house for quite a while. I knew exactly what I wanted mine to look like.

 

The Park boys in our matching dino pjs.

We had fun playing with Cormack. He was fun to run around with.

  

On Christmas Eve, we dressed up nicely (we left the green glasses in the car) and went to church.

When we got back, we left out some cookies for Santa and went to bed early to wait for him.

On Christmas morning, we rushed downstairs and saw that Santa had come! He brought Quinn Battleship!

And he brought me my Elmo book. For weeks, I have been saying "I a yittle sad. I miss my Melmo book." I used to have an Elmo ABC book, but I can't find it. Not sure why I miss it so much, but I've been missing it for weeks. But yay! Now I can be happy again!

Santa left us a note, too. It said a couple of our presents were too big, so he dropped them of at our house in Decatur. Now we have something to look forward to there, too!

 Everybody had fun opening presents and playing with them.

The next leg of our Christmas journey was going out to Mommy's family. Here we are with Cousin Elizabeth.

 

It was a long, but happy day. Now we're still having fun hanging out with family and enjoying our holiday. Hope everyone else had a lovely holiday, too! Merry Christmas!