Christmas 2008...The year of snow!

Let me start by saying that I struggle to like Christmas, let alone love it. When you throw in 10-12 inches of snow in my driveway, I tend to really hate it.

We woke up Christmas morning to NO power. No power means no heat. No heat means I was FREEZING! We managed to cuddle up and see what Santa had brought.

The boys all got massive amounts of electronics...what a shock. Randy got a new rescue club. Mom got a new computer chair.

TAYLOR

Randy


Carter...if you can see him though all the hair.

Miles


I had planned to make french toast for breakfast. That plan was a no go since we were still without any electricity. So we had the ever-christmasy cold cereal.

Eventually we were ready to go grandma's. We opened the garage door to find 12 inches on snow piled up against the garage door. Good thing we had 4wd! We made it there safely and I can honestly say that I was disappointed that mom only had a couple of inches of snow.

We had a good time hanging out with mom, dad and all the cousins. After we got home, Randy and Miles went out to snow blow. They were gone for over an hour. Poor things.

The view from the garage

Thru the front door

The poor birds forgot to fly south.


Since the snow had knocked out the satellite, we had no tv for the night. Randy and I started watching the Dark Knight. It was going well until the movie frozen with 30 minutes left. So we have no idea how it ends.

Finally it was bed time. We managed to get everyone in bed. I doubt there was alot of sleeping going on with the new access to ipod's, psp's and nintendo ds's.

So, another Christmas is gone. Now we count down to next year.