This week was great, but the ending was the best. Ellie's birthday was at the end of the week, and guess what happened.....It snowed on her birthday! Our family loves snow, and we got like 5 inches of great beautiful whiteness. We played outside, shoveled the walks, and had snowball fights. The kids love to have Mark try to hit them with snowballs while they run and dodge as best they can.
For Ellie's b-day we had friends over to build gingerbread houses. Her good friend had never built a gingerbread house so we invited her whole family over and built all kinds of different things. A train, pirate ship, ski slope, cottage, Christmas tree house, and surfer's paradise. Then we had another one of Ellie's good friends over for dinner and had Hawaiian hay stacks. Life is great as a 9 year old!
The next day we had a beautiful nature walk. It was truly a winter wonderland. The girls and Mark loved throwing giant snowballs into the river, and Caleb had his first taste of white gold. He didn't think it was too bad, but he didn't go back for seconds. We just did our best to keep him bundled up!
13 days till Christmas or...17771 minutes or...1066243 seconds...but who's counting!
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