The Annual Quest for a Christmas Card Picture

In December, we took advantage of a festively-decorated courtyard in Kernersville as the backdrop for our Christmas card photo shoot. Catching BOTH silly, wiggly boys being still, looking at the camera and smiling is not easy!

This photo was the winner!

The next day, it snowed at our house!

We didn't expect more than a flurry, but we ended up getting enough to make two snowmen! (One for our neighbors and one for us!)

Ball, Party of Four

February means party time! First we celebrated my birthday at Carrabba's restaurant on Feb. 1.

Then we had our own little Super Bowl party (which I got to attend because bad weather nixed church plans that night). Although we would rather have seen a Colts victory, we still enjoyed watching the game and eating goodies together!

TACKLE!!!


Riley and Donovan both had Valentine parties this week at school. I couldn't believe how much candy Riley came home with! (I wish I'd taken a picture!) I think we're all glad to have reasons to celebrate while we wait out this crazy-cold winter!

Snow on Snow

We got another 10 inches or so of snow on January 29-30. It was very powdery, so we couldn't build a snowman, but it was great for making piles to slide into!

As always, the boys had "warm chocolate" after playing in the snow.

The next day, we found many rabbit and bird tracks in the yard.

Riley decided to add some tire tracks!

The top 2 inches of the snow had frozen into a solid layer. Donovan pretended the pieces were pizza and tried to eat them!

Riley preferred to load them into his dump truck.

By the following night, the top layer had frozen so hard that Riley could walk on it without sinking!

We got ANOTHER 3 inches of snow on February 5. Can you guess what this is?

It's a neon orange Nerf football covered in snow!

My poor camellia... Will I ever see it bloom?

And guess what?

36 days until Spring...

SNOW!!!

We got about 8 inches of snow here! It started yesterday at lunchtime, so Riley got to start his Christmas vacation two hours early! It was also very, very windy yesterday, so we waited until today to go out in it.

There was a layer of ice on top of the snow, which was like adding another couple of feet to the slide! Whee!

Donovan didn't have quite so much fun... it was hard to walk on the ice and he had a runny nose. :(

Nothing bothered Riley, though... not even rolling around in it!