#3

18 weeks and counting.....

Our "post" Christmas

Because we were in Ecuador over Christmas, we did our Christmas presents when we got home.  Laralee was so excited to see what the wonderful presents were that our awesome family sent her and Hartwell. It was amazing to see how full our tree was and we didn't put one present under it.  We really felt the long distance love our family has for us.  Thanks Church's, Nonnie and Thompson's.  

Laralee handed out the presents.

Hartwell loved ripping the paper.  I think he could've done it all night.

They each got a Magnidoodle, I wish we had those for the trip.  They are great at church though.

Even Daisy got a couple presents.  Laralee gave her the bone and we didn't see her until it was completely gone.

Does anyone remember Pound Puppies?

Nonnie sent a The Night Before Christmas recorded by her.  The kids love listening to it.  

Santa brought Laralee a camera.  She is loves taking pictures.

Here's one of the only pictures we got of the Christmas tree.  It's our little tree with a lot sentimental value.   After Daisy finished her bone started sniffing under the tree to find more and knocked the whole tree over, breaking some ornaments and pretty much started the undecorating process.  So I didn't get the family picture in front of the tree I wanted this year. 

Winter in the South

Last night it started snowing about bed time.  The snow flakes were huge like Utah fluffy snow flakes.  I wish it would've kept going all night!  Ryan had to use the 4-wheel drive to not slip all over the road on the way to work.  Laralee was so excited to go out and make a snowman. Too bad there was a hard layer of frozen snow on top of it all.  The South evidently is not snowman country.  We still had fun crunching and sliding up and down the street.