Winter Has Come To North Carolina!

It was Christmas morning all over again in our house today!  Not because of Santa this time.  Old man winter brought us this surprise!  I  woke up to the kids screaming, "It's snowing, it's snowing!"  "Can we go outside?"  (keep in mind this was at 6:30 am!)  Luckily I knew it was suppose to snow and had already got a call at 6 telling me school was cancelled.  Ya, I know school cancelled for a little snow, well you forget where we live!  So, we got to have a great day and the kids got their snow this year!  Cole has never really gotten to play in this much snow, so he loved it.  I not sure what he did more of, throw it or eat it!  We went out twice today and Kenny got to come home early from work too since they were closing down most of the hospital today!  The snow should stay through tomorrow, but after that I think the 50 degree weather that is returning will dissolve it pretty fast.

 

I thought I would add the video of the kids "sledding".  At first we weren't sure what to do because they don't sell sleds over here. Ever.  So after I get me creative juices going I decided to pull out the bottom of an under-the-bed tupperware container.  Well, as you can see here, it worked, but only short term:)  The snow got piled up in the front and that was the end of that.  Of course, we aren't the ones for giving up, and it only took a few seconds to realize that out body boards we use at the beach would work just as well on snow!  They worked great, I just forgot to record that part too:)

It was Christmas morning all over again in our house today!  Not because of Santa this time.  Old man winter brought us this surprise!  I  woke up to the kids screaming, "It's snowing, it's snowing!"  "Can we go outside?"  (keep in mind this was at 6:30 am!)  Luckily I knew it was suppose to snow and had already got a call at 6 telling me school was cancelled.  Ya, I know school cancelled for a little snow, well you forget where we live!  So, we got to have a great day and the kids got their snow this year!  Cole has never really gotten to play in this much snow, so he loved it.  I not sure what he did more of, throw it or eat it!  We went out twice today and Kenny got to come home early from work too since they were closing down most of the hospital today!  The snow should stay through tomorrow, but after that I think the 50 degree weather that is returning will dissolve it pretty fast.

New family pictures

We recently had a friend come over and take some family pictures of us for a Christmas card.  Let me just start by saying that it was quite the event:)  We kept it really simple and easy, and with any "normal" children it would have been fine.  But, of course, we failed to remember Cole yet again.  We should have known that he was not going to allow us the pleasure of a normal picture.  Not that he doesn't take good pictures- he's probably my most photogenic child.  Cole, however, like to goof off, and he enjoys making other people laugh.  He really likes to drive us crazy as well!  So....

we started taking pictures and Cole seemed good for the first few frames.  The problem came when he realized that he could make the photographer (AKA Jav) laugh.  It all went downhill from there:)

Here he is with the first "funny face"  of course he had to make his goofy eyes, and for all those who haven't ever seen them...well... it's hard to explain but he can make them go into two different directions.  And it's pretty impossible not to start laughing.

Here we are as the girls start getting annoying at Cole's endless torture.
As any little 3 year old boy knows...what's funnier than a picture of you with your finger up your nose, right!
The finger thing was happening for way to long and Daddy had to finally step in.
Obviously you can see the tension of all of our faces (except Cole, of course).  Must have to do with whatever Kenny is saying to Cole:)

Cole- laughing at Kenny's last threat (and at how funny he thinks he is).  Somehow this kid takes nothing we say seriously. 
Again we have Cole doing something odd!  The kid decided to try a few interesting poses on his own.
When we told him to stop laughing the only way he could do it was by covering it up.
And finally this is what we all felt like in the end!  I'm sure you all have felt this way right?!?
I figured I would show the pictures that did turn out great.  Jav did an awesome job and all the pictures are priceless:)

Christmas Morning in our house!

Well, I realized this year that I only set up the video camera for Christmas.  So by the time I figured this out I grabbed my camera and took a few pictures really fast before all of the mess got cleaned up!  I guess if you want to see our Christmas morning you'll have to come view it at our house-he he!  I can sum it up with one word though- CHAOTIC!   Of course I should probably include the word fun too!  We had a great Christmas this year, and the kids got everything they asked for:)  Santa was very generous this year! 

These pictures were actually the "clean" version.  Meaning, after cleaning up the wrapping paper and those annoying plastic ties that keep the toys so perfectly in their boxes.


Cole took his toys into his room for safe keeping (I'm pretty sure he meant from Daddy, but it didn't last long before Kenny was in there playing with them!)
I had to show the picture of Cole's favorite present- you would have thought that the Bat Mobile or Bumblebee would have trumped this, but never underestimate Spiderman's powers of persuasion!