Living in the Moment: Christmas and since

Monday, February 01, 2010

Christmas and since

So last weekend-the end of January, we got an ice storm that cancelled a day of school and church. I've never seen anything like this, it froze a layer of ice over everything. Our yard was one single, unbroken sheet of ice with a thin layer of snow over it. In this picture you can see the tree branches...the small ones look white in the sun.

This is a close up of the small branches...if you look close you can see the little buds encased in ice.

Hunter ready to play in the icy snow. Skater style.

So Christmas kinda gets lost here, I guess. We weren't as good with pics this year, probably cuz the kids had all our attention with unwrapping gifts and stuff. It was a fun christmas, with Hunter excited to open and see his gifts, and Charlotte just excited. Hunter got this cool PVC chair from his friend Emery, but Charlotte loved it and would physically abuse Hunter if he tried to sit in it...needless to say, we made her her very own chair later.
In her favorite spot christmas day.
Hunter asked for a rocket from Santa about 10 days before Christmas, and after a long and fruitless search, Santa finally settled on a lego version with Buzz Lightyear and Zurg. He thought it was awesome and loved putting it together but got frustrated a couple days later when it wouldn't stop falling apart. Santa was afraid of this, but we fixed the problem by super gluing the whole thing!
Our little Charlie Brown tree...it was it's last christmas.
The kids exchanged sibling gifts Christmas eve...Charlotte gave Hunter a model rocket, and he gave her a Teddy bear. She loved his teddy and would constantly be fighting for it...he was very gracious to share, but came up with the idea for her gift all by himself! She now adores her very own teddy.
I just had to include this one...it's her "I just drank as much as I could in one breath and now I'm trying to recover look." Notice the red rimmed teary eyes.

1 comment:

Mrs. Lundgreen said...: Glad to see some new pics! Glad you made Charlotte a chair...Jane is also extremely possessive!; 1:18 PM

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10/1/07 - Hunter shut himself in our bedroom today. I went over to help him and made the mistake of asking, "Do you want to go outside?" I knew as I said it that I shouldn't have. He screamed in excitement and ran over to get his shoes. I tried to distract him with his teddy bears but he wouldn't be deterred. I didn't want him to think I'd lied, so he got to take a walk outside before his nap.
9/29/07 - We have one cabinet not "child-proofed" that Hunter has been obsessed with for the past week. He would go in, get the honey, walk around with it, and leave it in some random place. We couldn't figure out his obsession until the other day. I went in to find him hugging the honey jar when I realized it was a honey "bear". For those not aware, Hunter loves bears and thinks that any bear is free for the hugging. We got a good laugh out of it and let him play with it any time he wants now.