once upon a christmas

christmas happened and it was wonderful! we stayed here in kentucky and enjoyed our time together immensely. enjoy the pictures :)

once upon a thanksgiving...

we went to south carolina for thanksgiving. i have a sister, bro in law, and nephew who live there. it was a good time.

thanksgiving was yummy. that was the only day shawn had off but we made the most of it by walking to a nearby river after the turkey was in the oven that morning enjoying the yummy food we consumed that afternoon. we stayed thurs, fri, and sat, and drove home sunday after going to church with shay. we enjoyed the ymca (where shay works- shot some hoops, kids played in the jungle gym area, shay and i went to a step aerobics class,etc), the zoo, and watching movies and talking with shay and shawn after the kids were in bed at night. millie and ian had a blast together. it's nice to have a cousin close enough to drive to.

tid bits

today kyle is in indiana (i think!) for work (he travels a lot and sometimes i forget where he is-crazy!). me and the girls were talking to him this morning on the phone. savannah was holding the phone saying "hi" and "hello". i was telling kyle something about puggy. the next thing i knew, savannah was following puggy around trying to put the phone to her ear so she could talk to dad too. puggy has ears that flop over, so beeb was trying to open up her ears, turning them inside out and then proceeding to put the phone to her ear. good times.

earlier this week, it snowed for the first time here in kentucky. we didn't go out to play in it because we went to the library for storytime. later that day, all the snow had melted so we (specifically millie) have been waiting for more. this morning, to our delight, we woke up and saw snow outside the window. it wasn't even an inch (cause kentucky doesn't get much snow) but it was a good dusting. so we ate breakfast and cleaned up a bit and got dressed in our snow gear and out we went! the kiddos were delighted to play outside in the snow. millie wanted to throw snowballs at me so she would gather as much snow dust as she could and throw it at me. sometimes it didn't throw very well so she would just rub it on my pants. i think savannah's snow suit is a little bit too big but millie's fits great.

we also walked to the park because it wasn't way too cold like it's been for the last week. wee ha!