Snow Day

Wednesday night at 9 pm I got a text from the school district saying there was no school on Thursday due to snow. When the girls woke up in the morning I told them the good news and they wanted to run outside right away. So I let them...

Something is missing from this Snow Day picture

 The snow took it's sweet time. But my girls were more than happy to ice skate for awhile.

 Then we headed to Lark's house so her and I could take turns going for a run. I went first and it started snowing pretty good towards the end. By the time I walked in her house and she got ready for her turn, the snow had absolutely dumped. So instead she did a workout inside and the kids played outside.

 We went home and drove up to the neighborhood kids playing and this beautiful site:

Straight out of a movie

 The girls had a blast. They did a snow ball fight with the other kids, pulled each other on sleds, and just had a grand old time. I could not get them inside, despite the frigid temperatures.

Finally at 4:30 pm I bribed them with a movie and popcorn. It was such a fabulous day and the girls were in heaven. Grateful we got some good snow already this year!

Thanksgiving

We got to enjoy a nice long weekend down in Albany for Thanksgiving and the big Civil War game between OSU and UofO.

We try to cram as much as we can into our trips to Albany/Corvallis. We thought with a longer trip it would be easy but man does time fly by!

We did Thanksgiving, Black Friday shopping (Brian), work (me), tailgating, Beaver game (Brian), and then come Sunday we were exhausted. But it was awesome and we all had a fabulous time.

 Thanksgiving was at my Dad's this year and Lance and Kayla came as well.

I love this picture, cousin love and a glowing Kayla

 We had such a good time at my Dad's...girls played and us adults relaxed.

Abby and Bria

Family of 3!

Ames is slightly loved ;)

Oh my goodness I love him! Excuse my big mouth...he's so cute I couldn't resist.

We are obviously the more attractive of the siblings

Love my Kayla!

Safe to say my Dad was in Grandpa Heaven with so many of his grandkids running around

Brian carving the turkey

Cassidy and the girls

Love me some Brian dimples!

It was a delicious meal filled with lots of love and laughter...pretty perfect.

Quality family time

I had to snap this picture because it was a perfect Sunday evening movie night :)

 The girls' friend Presleight had her 7th birthday party at her house and the girls were ecstatic when Ariel and Rapunzel showed up...

*I didn't get a pic with Bria and the Princess's because she was too busy playing during the photo op!

It was so cute watching the girls sit so still and be so enthralled with Ariel's story

 And of course there was face painting!

 It was a great party and the girls thoroughly enjoyed themselves!

Reese had her Thanksgiving program and it was the cutest little thing. They sang so many songs and I was so impressed with how much they remembered.

 Before Brian left on his business trip we were able to go to Zoo lights and Grammy and Aunt Heather came too! It was wonderful to do it as a family, even if the rain started coming down pretty hard at one point and we were all freezing.

Riding on the Zoo Train

 Grateful we can do these kinds of things, Zoo lights are pretty awesome.

Carousal ride