Finally some snow like we're used too.

Jolly Old St. Nicholas lean your ear this way...

Santa Clause came to our ward Christmas Party. Gavin and Madison were very excited! As you can see Madison was keeping a very close eye on Santa making sure he didn't make any sudden moves. Gavin on the other hand kept giving Santa hugs. He probably gave Santa four hugs in the 3 minutes he was on his lap. He must have been buttering him up hoping he would bring him all the toys on his list.

School is Cancelled

We got a phone call at 4:51 a.m. and a recording that said school was cancelled today. You would think that we would have seen this outside....


But instead only this...

I couldn't believe it. There was a chance of freezing rain today so school was cancelled. But so far there has been no freezing rain and I have one upset child at home. It wouldn't be such a big deal but Gavin loves school. He was so disappointed when I told him. He said (yelled is more like it)"Now I won't have school for three days and if I don't go tomorrow it will be four!" In Utah I don't ever recall school being cancelled because of weather. We would still be going to school if it snowed as much as it did in the first picture. Now I can use the famous line that our parents did "I used to have to walk to and from school in a foot of snow" and I'm sure my kids will be amazed just like we were.

Our first snow fall in Illinois

I woke up this morning to my kids yelling that there was snow outside. I expected at least a couple of inches but soon realized that it was barely a dusting. They were so excited and the majority of the morning I heard "Oh cool, look at the snow on the roof" or "Wow there is snow on daddy's truck". I heard Gavin tell Madison that they should go outside and touch it. I am still in bed at this point. I heard them outside and they were having so much fun. I grabbed the camera and went to see what they were doing. They were just enjoying the dusting of snow! I didn't dare burst their bubble and tell them how much snow we used to get in Utah. How quickly they forget. I was worried that this year my kids wouldn't even see snow so I am happy they at least got to touch it. Madison told me the other day that it wasn't Christmas time because there wasn't any snow. We can now enjoy our holiday thanks to all this snow.

Gavin realized that he probably should have grabbed a coat in all the excitement.
This is Madison doing one of the poses she does best!
This is a couple of years ago in our backyard in Utah. There is quite a difference but we will keep that a secret for now.