Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas and Christmas Eve with Peter's family. We had a really great time. It snowed buckets. It was declared a blizzard. Can you believe it? Blizzard in Oklahoma? Who'd a thunk? Peter's sister, Katie, had fun projects for the kids to do that evening. She's so creative.

The proud granny holding little Jessica. I love it when a baby sleeps on you like this.

Getting ready to brave the storm.

Just such an adorable picture, I had to include it.

Emily wasn't so sure about all this snow. And especially all this cold. We don't do cold very often down here in Florida... though it's hardly broken 60 in the past couple weeks and the lows have been in the low 30s. Brrrrr.... But that was after this trip.

Josh, on the other hand, was not phased. He LOVES the snow. He could have stayed out there for quite some time. But it was getting dangerously cold, so we brought the kids in pretty quickly after all that bundling up.

Katie had the kids make candy Christmas trees. From what I understand, Emily did little decorating and a lot of eating. What can you do? At least she obviously enjoyed herself.

Josh here, showing off his own artwork. He was so proud of himself.

Then Josh knew what you're supposed to do with candy, and frosting, and ice cream cones. You eat it. As soon as you can. I think this was the only bite he took, though. They had so much fun with it all.