It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!

If you don't watch TV or read or if you live under a rock, you probably haven't heard that North Carolina got some snow! The Winston Salem area got 3-5" of snow. I think we got around 6"in Advance. This was the ideal snowfall scenario. First of all, it is right around Christmastime and then it was the weekend so no worries of going to school or feeling guilty about going or not going to work! On Friday night, it was snowing so hard that it actually was painful to sled because the snow was coming down so hard and fast! We woke up bright and early this morning and sled for hours!

Brian, Caroline & Jake

Jake & Caroline

The kids were VERY excited to finally build a snowman!

Cooper piled on me whenever I tried to rest.

Cooper took snowballs pretty well...

Caroline + Snowball = Poor sport

We live in an ideal community for sledding. Our house backs up to a golf course so there are plenty of hills to find in our neighborhood. We live on the 12th fairway and this fairway happens to be where most of the neighborhood comes to sled. I seriously have never seen so many people sledding in my life! The best part was that a neighbor with a booming outdoor sound system had Christmas songs playing. It was great sledding and listening to Christmas songs! It was like a 21st century Norman Rockwell kind of day! Days like this are the reasons why we put up with an ANAL Homeowners Association! :)

Tis the Season!

This has been a busy weekend with Christmas parties and Christmas pageants! We had parties both nights and the kids' Christmas pageant at church tonight. All in all, a great and busy weekend! Pat-Pat and Pop came for the weekend to watch the kids and to see their play. Gram and Grand-Bob were able to make the trip over to see the play, too!

Cooper was a sheep. The picture doesn't do his little costume justice!

Caroline was a Heavenly Host/Angel

Gram and Cooper

Gram, Caroline and Grand-Bob

With Pat-Pat's help, we were able to get our Christmas tree decorated. It's always so nice watching the kids look admire all of the ornaments and hang them on the tree!

Dear Santa....

Scott and I took Cooper window shopping on Saturday to get an idea of what he wanted from Santa. We told him that he needed to make a list for Santa when we got home. He got right to work and needed help spelling from Mommy but did a great job!

Just in case you can't read his handwriting:

Dear Santa,

Remote (Control Car)

Percy Legos

Stanley

Gordon

That kid loves his trains! I just love my little boy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

appy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone had a restful and fun, long Thanksgiving weekend! We enjoyed ourselves very much! Pop, Pat-Pat, Grand-Bob and Gram came to our house for Thanksgiving. It is very rare for us to have a holiday at our house, so it was very nice to not have to drive anywhere all weekend. The kids really enjoyed having their grandparents to themselves!

Caroline was a big help setting the table!

We only had 6 chairs so guess who didn't get a name tag or chair? Yep, good ol Mom and Dad. Caroline made name tags and sat her and Cooper at the head of the table and the grandparents in the middle. Gram and Pat-Pat finally talked Caroline into adding 2 more chairs for us. Isn't she sweet!

The kids piled and wrestled on Pop after dinner.

Later, Scott and the kids had fun with the pillows.

We Did it!

It's been a long journey! Since we moved into our house almost 5 years ago, the one thing that I could not stand about our house was the kitchen. It was white, white and more white! Scott promised me that we would get to it one day, so we finally started the kitchen project this past summer. We kept the cabinets, but changed everything else. We had the wallpaper removed and painted from ceiling to the floor. Scott and a friend tiled the floor and backsplash. Last but not least, we got new granite countertops. It was a long, long project with many meals eaten away from the kitchen. Believe or not, we were actually sick of eating out! The kids moaned and groaned when we packed them them in the car to go eat supper! We are very happy with the final results!

I didn't have any recent before pictures, so I dug up some pictures that I took when we first bought the house. I literally did NO decorating since we moved in.




Look at Sweet Caroline. She was soo young!